“During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long ago that a writer who needlessly modifies words is either a nervous writer who does not believe in… — Gerald Murnane Copy Share Image
“They supposed that their tinted papers showed something of what a man saw apart from himself--something they called the visible world. But they had… — Gerald Murnane Copy Share Image
“During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long ago that… — Gerald Murnane Copy Share Image
“Soon after I left university, I came up with another definition of a literary critic or would be critic: someoone who uses churlish towards… — Gerald Murnane Copy Share Image
