"There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel."

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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.

— Adam Gopnik