To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas, the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Another Master Gone
Another of the greats has passed. It was announced today that Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87.
He was a prolific author and an exceptional prose stylist. If you're a writer, it's worth revisiting his "10 Rules for Writing" on a frequent basis.
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