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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Thirty Word Thursday



Be daring....Don't labor over...works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

8 comments:

  1. Where do you find all these great quotes, Michelle?

    I have an award for you on my blog.

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  2. Nice! need to tell this to my inner editor!

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  3. Thanks Michelle, what a wonderful quote. It's so true too, I can't think of a single book that I haven't read extremely recently where I can remember a specific sentence.

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  4. Great quote! I NEEDED to hear that! Genius!!

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  5. This is fabulous! I labor over the words so much, but I need to labor over content too. Thanks!

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  6. Yes! I'm totally copying this - love it! Thanks, Michelle. :-)

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  7. Ooo, that's a good one! And so true--it's the story that holds the reader's interest, not the words.

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  8. I agree with this quote and yet there are books I feast upon for their loveliness.

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