Gulley Jimson – invented by Joyce Cary Philip Marlowe – invented by Raymond Chandler Lorelei Lee – invented by Anita Loos Huckleberry Finn – invented by Mark Twain Frank Chambers – invented by James M. Cain
Joyce Cary’s novel, The Horse’s Mouth, contains artful writing of the finest cabin. It teems with lovely sentences, the likes of which are wrought such as for example: He was born to be a village baker’s wife and tell the news warm, with the new loaves.
the art of writing = deciding how to sequence carefully selected words
May your heaventree of stars always hang with night blue fruit.
The books watch with Louise Brooks’ eye for another opportunity to advance.
During my early childhood years, cars still had running boards, but I never saw anybody actually run on one.
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Thus spake the repugnant narrator of Nabokov’s Lolita.
Between blanket of snow and blanket of cloud there is a thin stripe of lake.
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5 of 5 stars to The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton goodreads.com/review/show/55…
