Ben Hecht wrote, “I turned into a Jew in 1939. I had before then been only related to Jews. In that year I became a Jew and looked on the world with Jewish eyes. The German mass murder of the Jews, recently begun, had brought my Jewishness to the surface.”
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@A_AMilne Pooh Bear has taught us two lessons here. Lessons that every writer should learn:
1. Speak simply and clearly.
2. Speak to the needs of your readers.
And these lessons hold true for almost any writing job https://t.co/FIHH3EwxBw
My daughter-in-law Ariella is a novelist. One day, Ariella was writing something and told my then-2-year-old grandson, Yaakov Chaim, "I need a few minutes of quiet." He countered, "But I need to kvetch." https://t.co/8Y4n2UfiB9