“Guys like Harry Wittington and Jim Thompson could tell a story in less than two hundred pages. They didn’t need six hundred like everybody seems to now. And they were good stories, let me tell you. Not like most of this bloated stuff you read now.”
—Clyde Ballinger in Death on the Move, ©1989 by Bill Crider
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That Clyde Ballinger is a sharp cookie.
Amen, brother.
I have never read a long book that didn't seem like it could have been shorter. Leave them wanting more.
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