In a funny coincidence, I spoke last month at the HippoCamp Creative Nonfiction conference, and both another speaker and myself accidentally quoted the exact same passage from the exact same book.
Who was this popular author? Toni Morrison? Trevor Noah? Nora Roberts?
Nope. Verlyn Klinkenborg:
Know what each sentence says,
What it doesn’t say,
And what it implies.
Of these, the hardest is knowing what each sentence actually says. Continue reading “The Spotlight”