“If
you tell the reader that Bull Beezley is a brutal-faced, loose-lipped
bully, with snake's blood in his veins, the reader's reaction may be,
'Oh, yeah!' But if you show the reader Bull Beezley raking the
bloodied flanks of his weary, sweat-encrusted pony, and flogging the
tottering, red-eyed animal with a quirt, or have him booting in the
protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and, boy, the reader believes!”
- Fred East
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