Force/descriptions

Famous quotes containing the words force and/or descriptions:

“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)