“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it’s the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I’ve always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word for word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There’s a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer’s will to live.”
- Don DeLillo
This would be relevant in the world of politics if candidates and politicians actually wrote their own material. Otherwise, we must pick through their speeches, addresses, and statements in order to try and find words that reflect their actual beliefs. If language and words are what shapes us an inidividuals, then the public deserves the right to evaluate people based on their own words.
This is a great passage . . .
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