“As far as arms go, I think they’re the one part of the body that tends to get short shrift in fiction, even though they’re the place where the trouble between people usually gets its start.” – Gary Lutz (from Justin Taylor interview in Bookslut)
Arms and the man
May 11th, 2012 · 4 Comments
Tags: Lit & Crit
4 responses so far ↓
1 Averil Dean // May 11, 2012 at 9:48 am
Note to self: Pay attention to characters’ arms.
2 Tetman Callis // May 11, 2012 at 2:14 pm
I’m not sure I ever have or haven’t. If the arms were doing something, I suppose I did. But it would be what they were doing, not them per se.
3 Averil Dean // May 11, 2012 at 2:45 pm
I’m telling you, this Lutz fellow makes me nervous. He seems to be one of those clever, capable men who lays down the Laws of Writing in such a way as to render me wordless.
4 Tetman Callis // May 11, 2012 at 4:02 pm
I don’t think he would ever lay down the law to anyone other than himself, and then he’d be just as like to lay down for it.
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