“[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.” BitsNeededPlotGertrudeNeeded Someone Author:James Laughlin
“I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.” WritingTryingLittlesBitsBreakStrangeReaderSpeechLittle BitAncientBlockBrownBreak UpMonotonousMonotonyCadence Author:James Laughlin
