In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you...
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945
