"Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible."

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Source : "'Getting things right'". www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2008.

Diana Athill

#Writing Quotes #Should Quotes #Reader Quotes

“A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.”

Source : Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster
“I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.”
“I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.”
“You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.”
“Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.”
“It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.”
“All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.”
“Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.”

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