What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.

“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selec…”

“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffol…”

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to las…”

“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant …”