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Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
The smaller the country the larger the stamps. He who lives alone is always on sentry duty. When our friends leave us, they take away our shores. One of Hamilton Finlay’s last exhibitions, in Edinburgh in 2005, was simply titled ‘Sentences’. All the exhibits were monostichs, one-sentence poems, painted in different colours on the white walls, like
... See moreJoe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
they ventriloquized the dead man, addressing the passer-by with some clipped meditation on mortality.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
“To England and the English, as long as they keep their cooking to themselves.” Most of the French people we had met were more or less disdainful of la cuisine Anglaise without knowing very much about it. But Régis was different. He had made a study of the English and their eating habits, and during dinner he told us exactly where we went wrong. It
... See morePeter Mayle • Toujours Provence (Vintage Departures)
The deliberate use of surprising transitions—colons, dashes, block quotations—is one of the hallmarks of lively prose.
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
sanest guide through the turbulence and hatred of human politics is a humorous and self-deprecating pessimism.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
a typically English attempt to restore a balance.