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Doctorow: “Good writing evokes sensation”

October 16, 2015 Eric Johnson

“Good writing evokes sensation: not the fact it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” –E.L. Doctorow

This echoes Kubrick: “The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.”

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