A Quote for Saturday…from Katherine Mansfield via Elizabeth Knox

I really liked this one from Katherine Mansfield that Elizabeth Knox mentioned in our interview on SF-Signal the other week:

“I shall tell everything, even how the laundry basket squeaked.”

To me this speaks of the way really good writing makes a world real—it’s not about piling on descriptive detail, but making the details that are included really count, even if it’s something so small and seemingly ordinary as the squeak of a laundry basket. And ‘making it real’ is what storytelling is all ab...