All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
Francine ProseBut if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.
Francine ProseTraditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
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