'most disadvantaged The writer is one whose sense of language seems incorrigibly deviant. The most obvious example is the writer who can not move a step without using phrases like "with a gleam of happiness in their eyes", or "the lovely twins", or "the echo of his laughter" lifeless expressions, emotions mechanical zombie, a writer who in everyday life does not feel any sensation or not believe what he feels sufficiently to try to define it in their own words, and therefore prefers to fall back on, "she choked a sob, "" a friendly smile at the corner of his mouth "," arching an eyebrow questioningly in his typical, "a slight smile bent her lip," "the face framed by auburn curls.The problem is that it is not only cliché (worn, abused) but that this language is symptomatic of a psychological background that leads to atrophy. "(John Gardner)
This observation is caustic collection , along with many others, in a booklet published by Homer and headed I want to write! (135 big tell me how) : a sort of organized citazionario secondo piccoli temi (in questo caso Mi serve uno stile ) che contiene, appunto, 135 brevi riflessioni di grandi autori intorno al tema dello scrivere. Da Stephen King a Virginia Woolf passando per Orazio e Pirandello, tanti spunti alcuni dei quali davvero illuminanti per gli autori esordienti.
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