From The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Phillip LopateJAPAN
"In conversation, too, we prefer the soft voice, the understatement. Most important of all are the pauses."
From In Praise of Shadows, by Junichiro Tanizaki
"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
From The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate
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