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He advised writing "without hope and without despair" and that's spot on.
Yet writing "without style" is one of the writing styles most difficult to accomplish; you really need to be well equipped to do it.
It's like writing without having to write.
Hard to imagine writing without rereading.
Besides, historical writing without particularity is numbing.
Writing without punctuation and half-eaten words annoyed me.
I doubt I'd be writing without her tales.
I can't imagine Toni Morrison writing without García Márquez; I can't imagine Salman Rushdie writing without him.
Sometimes you want to be leaning forward, writing, without any distractions.
(That's not to suggest that irony is dispensable. Writing without irony is food without salt).
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