[Journalistic writing]...is a matter of falling back on purely literary habits - the sentence composed on the reliable architectural principles of the right noun, a couple of odd or 'sensitive' adjectives, the clauses disposed and balanced according to foot rule. Writing for talking is no less than abandoning architecture altogether and trying to imitate the movement of a bird or river.
Alistair Cooke, quoted in The Biography by Nick Clarke. (303)
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