I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasiona… — James Laughlin

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

James LaughlinPoet · American · 1914 – 1997

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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word. — Nora Roberts
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. — Miguel de Icaza
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. — Buddha
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. — James Laughlin
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. — James Laughlin
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. — James Laughlin