I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
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