I think there’s a misconception out there that good writing means phrasing things in a way nobody ever has or would—that if a sentence feels familiar in the mind it fails. The opposite is true. Good writing is phrasing things in a way everyone has always wanted to and recognizes in their hearts.
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The best of good writing. I can say how many times I've stopped reading mid-paragraph and gone back to read the last sentences again, and again, wondering how the h3ll did King do that to me? How did he take me there. There!
When I’ve always thought about it or experienced it but the author articulates it just the way it resonates
And when a writer can express that, that is the magic sauce. Let everyone feel that, make it understood to all - they won’t let go.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd”
Alexander Pope