“Clumsy writing begets clumsy thought, which begets even clumsier writing. The only way out is for the rest of us to look back to a time when authors had more t

“Clumsy writing begets clumsy thought, which begets even clumsier writing. The only way out is for the rest of us to look back to a time when authors had more to say than, “I'm a writer!” — when the novel wasn't just a three-hundred page caption for the photograph on the inside jacket.” - B.R. Myers, A Reader’s Manifesto