The Library Writer

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We take our reading cues from syntax, so when the words fill the right slots, we cannot help but shape them into sense and imagine the world they suggest. Leave bits of silence, unsaid words between your actual words and gravid pauses between your sentences. Amid these gaps, implications sit. If you resist spelling it all out, the rhythm of the words makes its own eerie sense. A sentence must say something, but it can be a half-said thing and the better for it.
First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life
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