Wednesday, January 12, 2011
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft--Stephen King
"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story . . . to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."
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You tell it Stephen. Amen.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am still trying to finish The TommyKnockers. I can feel it in my bones, 2011 is the year.
Thanks J. Jeanne for this insightful passage.
Right on.
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