This writing that you do, that so
thrills you, that so rocks and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to
the band, is barely audible to anyone else. The reader’s ear must adjust down from
loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary
reader picking up a book can’t yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to
pick up the writing’s modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.
~
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 1989
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
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AH yes, that is so true. How have you been? Summer has kept me on the go. I am hardly finding time to blog.
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