Francine Prose - Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye...

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Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

Francine Prose

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Lange bevor die Idee der Konferenz eines Schriftstellers ein Schimmer in den Augen war, lernten Schriftsteller, als sie die Arbeit ihrer Vorgänger lasen. Sie studierten Meter mit Ovid, Handlungsaufbau mit Homer, Komödie mit Aristophanes. Sie verfeinerten ihren Prosa-Stil, indem sie die klaren Sätze von Montaigne und Samuel Johnson aufsaugen.

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