[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint -Lose Your BadgeNO SIGN EVER inDOMES

[RoryGoff]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote:
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>  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
> <snip>
> > People have different reasons for reading. Some do it to
> > relax, or as you say to distract them from their lives. I
> > do it because I love good writing. Sadly, that is often 
> > my bane when it comes to modern writing, because I have
> > high standards based on reading earlier writers. I think
> > I stopped reading for a year after having plowed through
> > my first Dan Brown novel. It took a re-read of Dorothy
> > Dunnett to get me back on track. :-)
> > <rorygoff@...>
> 
> Your *first* Dan Brown novel? You mean you actually had the stomach to read 
> more 
> than one? You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din :-)
> Was it Stephen King that said: "If you want to avoid writing a lot of crap, 
> you 
> have to read a pile of it"?
> 
* * An interesting quote, if so...I certainly have read a pile of crap, and 
written it as well :-)