A lot of the work I do is taking the bare sentence that says what you sort of want to say — which is where a lot of writers stop — and making it into an arching kind of thing that has both strength and beauty. And that is where the sweat comes in. That can take a long time and many revisions. A single sentence, particularly a long, involved one, can carry a story forward. I put a lot of time into them. Carefully constructed sentences cast a tint of indefinable substance over a story.
The Art of Fiction #199 [The Paris Review #188, Spring 2009)
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