Quotable 79 Posted on November 23, 2011November 19, 2011 by bryon Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don’t get all writerly: “He opened the door.” There, it’s open. – Amy Hempel This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
bryon says:And he didn’t have half my problems. Oh, wait … you’re using that as an example of a well-crafted, simple, direct sentence in the same spirit as the quotation. That’s a good one. And … forget that first thing I wrote. November 23, 2011 at 4:01 pm
“Jesus wept.” (John 11:35, KJV)
And he didn’t have half my problems.
Oh, wait … you’re using that as an example of a well-crafted, simple, direct sentence in the same spirit as the quotation. That’s a good one.
And … forget that first thing I wrote.