No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
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Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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