Chattering Quotes

It`s important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he`s writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.