John McNally Quotes:
Ocupation: American football player
Life: November 27, 1903 - November 28, 1985
Birthday: November 27
Death: November 28
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.
topic: Reading, Writing, Two, Next Time, Scalpels
