Nancy Kress There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don’t know any of these writers. – Nancy Kress Add Quotes Drafts Quotes Fiction Quotes Intelligible Quotes Lean Quotes Paragraphs Quotes Sentences Quotes Skimpy Quotes Writers Quotes Words that add no new information or aren’t repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat. All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between ‘reality’ and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it’s not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
Eduardo Paes Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it’s unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics. – Eduardo Paes
Amanda Nunes I’m very anxious. If you’re going to fight the best fighters, you have to be prepared for a war, a highly-anticipated fight. – Amanda Nunes
John W GardnerSociety Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. – John W Gardner
Rumaan Alam To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I’m amused by my children’s awe at quotidian things – a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I’m envious of their ability to attain something I often can’t: a state of transcendence induced by art. – Rumaan Alam
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