First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction. (Charles Reade)

First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction.

Charles Reade

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