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Re: Article length- more Twain
More from Mark Twain: "To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."
- Letter to Emeline Beach, 10 Feb 1868
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-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Campbell <dcamp@chilitech.net>
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 4:12 pm
Subject: Re: [GWL] Article length
----- Original Message ----- From: <frielster@aol.com>
> I'm reminded of the apocryphal story of Mark Twain, who told someone that > it would take him two weeks to prepare a one-hour lecture, a week for a > two-hour lecture, and if he could ramble on for three hours, "I'm ready > right now."
I have stuck up on my computer monitor his comment that "The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between the lightening and the lightening bug."
D
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