Isaac Babel Quote

Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.

P. Blake and M. Hayward (eds.) Dissonant Voices in Soviet Literature (1961)

Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.

Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.

Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.

Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.