"Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully..."

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Source : Samuel R. Delany (2013). “About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

Samuel R. Delany

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“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
“If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.”
“The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”
“The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some”
“Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.”
“God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.”
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
“Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.”

Source : Blaize Clement (2010). “Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.26, Minotaur Books

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