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- edit
nothing
omission
subtraction
writing
- medium:
- Newspaper Essay
“How much can one remove, and still have the composition be intelligible? Chekhov removed the plot. Pinter, elaborating, removed the history, the narration; Beckett, the characterization. We hear it anyway.”
—
David Mamet
“Writers on Writing; Hearing The Notes That Aren’t Played,” The New York Times, July 15, 2002.1 »

