William Brohaugh

Invaluable experience, because here’s something you may not have realized: you can learn ever so much more reading bad writing than good.

It’s the writing, folks. It’s not only the writing; there must be a story, there must be characters–––but if the writing’s not good, nothing else is going to matter

Elmore Leonard, a man who has yet to write a clumsy sentence or an uninviting paragraph, has famously explained his writing style. “I try,” he says, “to leave out the parts people skip.”