“One of the causes of the deterioration in writing
is that it’s not done for the ear. I’ve had very articulate students hand in
muddled and inconsequent papers. Then I ask them to read their papers aloud and
they realize that the sentences don’t really connect or that parts are not in
any intelligible order, because they have not in any way thought of writing as
a sound.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Garry Wills
interviewed by Cal Fussman for “The Men of Our Time,” Esquire, October
2015
(Photo of
Garry Wills by Lauren Gerson, taken on March 10, 2015 at the LBJ Presidential
Library, where he was joining the Friends of the LBJ Library to discuss his
book, "The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis.")
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