Oct. 10th, 2018

Gabor-y

Oct. 10th, 2018 01:33 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Nothing can break the mood of a piece of writing like bad dialogue. My students are miserable when they are reading an otherwise terrific story to the class and then hit a patch of dialogue that is so purple and expositional that it reads like something from a childhood play by the Gabor sisters….I can see the surprise of my students’ faces, because the dialogue looked okay on paper, yet now it sounds as if it were poorly translated from their native Hindi.”

—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Orville and Wilbur, Katy Perry, or the Avengers. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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