Thursday, April 23, 2009

An interview ...

... with William Gass. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

If you are glib you end up merely following the latest fashion among teenagers who always have to have a lingo of their own, but should not carry it past seventeen without seeming silly. The good writer has to grasp the lasting quality, rather than the passing changes, of the language.

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