Seven Writers Confess Their Literary Sins
In a new series, seven writers confess their literary sins, from stealing phrases and avoiding full stops to distrusting authors and using online thesauruses. Ahmed Naji admits to literary kleptomania, Anna Juul reveals her comma addiction, Francesco Pacifico throws books when prose feels unearned, Karim Kattan defends telling over showing, Imogen West-Knights outsources synonyms to Google, and more.
I am a thief, good at hiding what I take, memorizing it, until it flows in my bloodstream, so no one can tell where the blood comes from, or which writers I stole from.