Discipline Is Never A Restraint

Discipline is never a restraint. It’s an aid. The first commandment of the romantic school is: “Don’t worry about grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, plot or structure--just let it come.” That’s not writing; that’s vomiting, and it leads to uncontrolled, unreadable prose. Remember: Easy writing makes hard reading, but hard writing makes easy reading.

FLORENCE KING