Verlyn Klinkenborg Quotes
Volunteer Sentences Are The Relics Of Your Education And The Desire To Emulate The Grown-up, Workaday Prose That Surrounds You, Which Is Made Overwhelmingly Of Sentences That Are Banal And Structurally Thoughtless. A Volunteer Sentence Is Almost Always A Perfunctory Sentence. That Can Change. But Only After Years Of Questioning The Shapes Of Sentences You Read, And Every Sentence You Write. Don't Let The Word "years" Alarm You. Think Of It As Months And Months And Months And Months. You May Think A Volunteer Sentence Is An Inspired One Simply Because It Volunteers. This Is One Reason To Abandon The Idea Of Inspiration. All The Idea Of Inspiration Will Do Is Stop You From Revising A Volunteer Sentence. Only Revision Will Tell You Whether A Sentence That Offers Itself Is Worth Keeping.
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