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Thought for the Day Beginning writers tend to be verbose. We can’t tell the ...

Paul Whybrow

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“Beginning writers tend to be verbose. We can’t tell the difference between an essential detail and an inessential one. We’re like golden retrievers romping through Storyland, and pretty much every damn thing we see is a squirrel.”

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