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Saturday, 26 May 2012

Figures of Speech that should have been strangled at birth

From tonight's EUROVISION song contest. In reverse order of irritation.

The gold of a spider’s web

My love is a sinking ship and mine alone

I landed my plane on the lightless runway of your soul

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…all we have, finally, (is) the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they best say what they are meant to say

Raymond Craver

It is well known that a woman can be in two places at once, at her desk and her washing machine...
Sylvia Townsend Warner

Far better to write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine Mansfield

A writer should know how much change a character has in his pocket.
James Joyce

I write because I don't know what to think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickenson

"A word after a word after a word is power" - Margaret Atwood

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Figures of Speech that should have been strangled at birth