Wednesday, September 21, 2022

 

Slow Writing

Gustave Flaubert, letter to Maxime Du Camp (June 26, 1852; tr. Geoffrey Wall):
May I die like a dog rather than try to rush through even one sentence before it is perfectly ripe.

Que je crève comme un chien plutôt que de hâter d'une seconde ma phrase qui n'est pas mûre.



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