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Francine Prose

Reading Like a Writer

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  • Ира Остапчукцитирует7 лет назад
    Perhaps a more accurate explanation might be something like Emily Dickinson’s well-known definition of poetry: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry.” I realize that this is not as precise a definition as the would-be beautiful-sentence-writer might wish.
  • Nataliaцитирует4 года назад
    What writers know is that, ultimately, we learn to write by practice, hard work, by repeated trial and error, success and failure, and from the books we admire
  • Mikie Jonesцитирует4 года назад
    We concentrate, we skim, we skip words, put down the book and daydream, start over, and reread.
  • Mikie Jonesцитирует4 года назад
    Can the love of language be taught? Can a gift for storytelling be taught? then the answer is no.
  • Liza Loginovaцитирует4 года назад
    I’VE heard the way a writer reads described as “reading carnivorously.” What I’ve always assumed that this means is not, as the expression might seem to imply, reading for what can be ingested, stolen, or borrowed, but rather for what can be admired, absorbed, and learned. It involves reading for sheer pleasure but also with an eye and a memory for which author happens to do which thing particularly well.
  • Liza Loginovaцитирует4 года назад
    There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing
  • b3713569266цитирует4 года назад
    Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, and Philip Roth. Here is the sentence that begins Samuel Johnson’s brief biography The Life of Savage.
  • b3713569266цитирует4 года назад
    By now you may be asking: what is a beautiful sentence? The answer is that beauty, in a sentence, is ultimately as difficult to quantify or describe as beauty in a painting or a human face. Perhaps a more accurate explanation might be something like Emily Dickinson’s well-known definition of poetry: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry.”
  • b3713569266цитирует4 года назад
    By now you may be asking: what is a beautiful sentence? The answer is that beauty, in a sentence, is ultimately as difficult to quantify or describe as beauty in a painting or a human face. Perhaps a more accurate explanation might be something like Emily Dickinson’s well-known definition of poetry: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry.”
  • b3713569266цитирует4 года назад
    is a beautiful sentence? The answer is that beauty, in a sentence, is ultimately as difficult to quantify or describe as beauty in a painting or a human face. Perhaps a more accurate explanation might be something like Emily Dickinson’s well-known definition of poetry: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry.”
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