Tag archive: quotation
The Elements of Style, p. 120
“Style takes its final shape more from attitudes of mind than from principles of composition, for, as an elderly practitioner once remarked, ‘Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.’ This moral observation would have no place in a… continue reading »
Jayber Crow, p. 54
I said, “Well,” for now I was ashamed, “I had this feeling maybe I had been called.” “And you may have been right. But not to what you thought. Not to what you think. You have been given questions to… continue reading »
Inspired by Buddy Glass
I’m finishing up Salinger’s last novella about the Glass family, “Seymour – an Introduction,” written in the point of view of Buddy Glass. Seymour, whom Buddy writes about, is a poet; Buddy writes in prose. It’s brilliant, really, how they’re… continue reading »