Perhaps Lila was right: my book–even though it was having so much success–really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.

Elena Ferrante
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The quote above is a short piece of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. In this quote, his thoughts focus on the importance of writing in a way that is organized and well thought out. He also sets the idea that when one writes in a way that is disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical and shapeless, the result is bad.

Source: The Story Of The Lost Child

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