Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but… — Isaac Babel
Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.
The New Yorker · 1940
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Babel, Isaac. Quoted in "Hide and Seek: The Complete Isaac Babel." Written by John Updike. The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2001.
