domingo, fevereiro 13, 2005
Conselho para jovens escritores
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Relendo a história resta apenas uma mão cheia de passagens para riscar e metade delas nem é minha. O que merece outra deliciosa Jonhsoniana:
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.