Tuesday, 26 October 2010

merlin:

bobulate:

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

— Stephen King

I’d agree with this if he’d substituted “exceptions” with “benefits.”

Rules that discourage people from learning new things produce better Maoists than writers.

[said the web’s most vocal fan of On Writing.]

I knew something felt wrong when I read that quote originally. Thanks Mr. Mann, for vocalizing what I couldn’t, but wanted to.

(Via kung fu grippe.)