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“[G]ood writing is not about knowing words…”

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August 23, 2009

This collection is a wonderful reminder that good writing is not about knowing words, grammar or Faulkner, but having that rare ability to tell the truth, an ability that education and sophistication often serve to conceal. While we are all, I suppose, in the business of surviving, some really are surviving more notably than others.

via Book Review – ‘Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys,’ Edited by David Henry Sterry and R. J. Martin Jr. – Review – NYTimes.com.

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