"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Diana Athill, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Diana Athill

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
“We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”
“Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra
“Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.”
“I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.”
“Do it fast, you pansycake.”
“Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.”
“I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.”

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