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Rona Jaffe
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“... boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.”
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“'This damned thing,' he said.... 'You're speaking of the sixteenth of an inch between me and the Home for Unwed Mothers.'”
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“... almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.”
Rona Jaffe, U.S. writer
(1932 - 2005)