Friday, January 28, 2011

Quote of the day

Tim O'Brien, speaking about the "sense of place" in writing stories:

"It's not the amount of time you spend in a place that matters; it's the intensity of that time."

as quoted by Rebecca McClanahan in

Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively. Writer's Digest Books: 1999.

Have you read O'Brien's story "The Things They Carried"?


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