Ishmael Reed Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

  Ishmael Reed

  Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, America

  Ishmael Reed (2013). “Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel”, p.18, Open Road Media

• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Epidemics, California

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

  Ishmael Reed

  Thinking, Style, Amber

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Writing, Boxing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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