The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not
an artist.
-- Edward Abbey
an artist.
-- Edward Abbey
Related:
- A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins,
use more than Chablis for ink. -- Edward... - Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or
Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the
sake of technique.
Edward... - Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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Edward... - There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
Edward... - Like any writer, I'd rather be read than dead. Like any serious *author*,
I'd rather be dead than not read at all. -- Edward... - Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will... - Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
Edward... - The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks
to swallow.
Edward... - Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the
idea,
the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill...
