There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.
Stephen KingTags: on-writing stories storytelling great-writing
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]
Tags: reading good-books great-writing bad-books
...-compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitrogen in the soil.
Michael PollanTags: great-writing
...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.
Michael PollanTags: great-writing
The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style.
Michael PollanTags: great-writing
In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new.
Ernest HemingwayTags: mystery re-reading great-writing
Every once in a bestseller list, you come across a truly exceptional craftsman, a wordsmith so adept at cutting, shaping, and honing strings of words that you find yourself holding your breath while those words pass from page to eye to brain. You know the feeling: you inhale, hold it, then slowly let it out, like one about to take down a bull moose with a Winchester .30-06. You force your mind to the task, scope out the area, take penetrating aim, and . . . read.
But instead of dropping the quarry, you find you’ve become the hunted, the target. The projectile has somehow boomeranged and with its heat-sensing abilities (you have raised a sweat) darts straight towards you. Duck! And turn the page lest it drill between your eyes.
Tags: writing writing-craft great-writing rats great-writer writing-excellence
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