Bryan Young
I think it's a fascinating view of an early draft of To Kill A Mockingbird and a look at the ever-evolving nature of craft and not a definitive statement of what Harper Lee was trying to say, but a shadow of how she tried to get there.
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One could say that certain writers (Green, Steinbeck, Vonnegut) prefer succinct sentences and a specific conciseness in writing, versus the often criticized "long-winded" nature of writers like Henry James and Leo Tolstoy; in your opinion, what is the benefit of writing succinctly and directly? What is gained through sparse language that can't be gained via dense language, and vice versa?
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