Reflections of a working writer and reader
When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to be. But I've never had a long period of being happy. Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time. When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down. I found when I was a child that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go. It leaves a sort of melancholy behind and then it goes. Jean Rhys
The title is a quote from Mark Twain. But in a piece from The New York Times, Ben Yagoda elaborates at length on the history of the words that modify nouns.
“Kicking things off with adjectives is a little like starting a kids’ birthday party with the broccoli course.”
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Wholehearted agreement. 🙂
jb says: I understand, I don’t like broccoli either.