La Vie Boheme

"Critics have argued that too

"Critics have argued that too close attention to style was harmful to the sweep necessary to fiction: they have contended that many of the greatest novelists, such as Dickens, Balzac, Dostoyevsky, and Zola at times wrote badly; assuredly, they treated language carelessly more than once."

Brand showed me the above quote, but didn't have a source. It makes me feel all kinds of better. No, I didn't write a word yesterday, but I'm gearing up for some serious writing this weekend.