I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
To wear the arctic fox you have to kill it.
One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.