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KLINKENBORG, Verlyn. Several short sentences about writing.
New York: Vintage Books, 2012
This book I have read means a lot to me as regards to writing style. Reading those 204 pages helped me think, -re-think, in fact-the way I make sentences. The small pocket book deals with the creation of sentences.
The page numbering avoids writing odd page numbers. Don’t ask me why but I found that original, strange. The author only had to mark even pages.
1/”Short sentences aren’t hard to make” (page 4)
2/”The voices of former teachers, usually uttering rules.
Rules like, “Don’t begin sentences with ‘and’.”
(It’s okay. You can begin sentences with “and”.) * (page 6)
3/” See which words the sentence can live without” (page 12)
4/”It’s your business to know the names of things” (page 43)
5/ “A cliché is dead matter” ** (page 45)
6/”Read until your ear detects a problem” (page 53)
7/”Never stop reading” (page 149)
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*reference to William Strunk´s The Elements of Style
** I was told this same idea years ago by the poet Luis Antonio de Villena
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Eugenio Fouz.-4.4.2020
PhD.-sophomore
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