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Writing–And Good Taste

November 18, 2011 by fpdorchak

I saw this in the tagline for another writer (thanks, Betsy!), loved it, and wanted to share this cool quote, because, well, many ask how and why I can write some of the stuff I write when I’m not such a bad guy. A quote from John Updike:

“I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite.”

John Updike

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Filed Under: Metaphysical, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: Betsy Dornbusch, F. P. Dorchak, good taste, John Updike, writing

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  1. Marc Schuster says

    November 18, 2011 at 5:45 am

    Great quotation! I love it.

  2. fpdorchak says

    November 18, 2011 at 5:47 am

    Thanks, Marc! It really got me to laughing! :-]

  3. Karen Lin says

    November 18, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    You’re not such a bad guy, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have it in you to imagine what you’d do if you were a bad guy.

  4. fpdorchak says

    November 19, 2011 at 4:58 am

    Ah, the Lin and the Yang! ;-]

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  1. Writers Who Taste Good! « HoarseMan of… says:
    November 20, 2011 at 11:31 am

    […] the guy pictured here) has a great post on his “Running of at the Mouth” blog, called Writing–And Good Taste, inspired by Betsy (also not pictured here, who must have gotten a call from some over-caffeinated […]

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