Tuesday, April 12, 2011

From The Journalists Craft

"Don't tell readers. Show them. Give them a example. Examples are the stained glass windows of the Mind." - Vladimir Nabokov

"Kipling's vocabulary was rich. He chose words, often very unexpected words, for their color, their precision, their cadence. He knew what he wanted to say and said it incisively. His prose had pace and vigor." - Somerset Maugham

"The best sentences have their own sound - with the stresses shifting with the sense." Robert Frost

"The better writers write with their ears, listening to the inner music of sentences." Anthony Burgess

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