Ken Macrorie quotes

“Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.”
-- Ken Macrorie

Source : Ken Macrorie (1985). “Telling Writing”, Boynton/Cook

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“Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.”
-- Ken Macrorie

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“The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word.  We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune.  The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.”

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”

“The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.”

“Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.”

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.”

“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.”