Stanley Fish

Also known as Stanley Eugene Fish, Stanley E. Fish

American literary theorist and lawyer (born 1938)

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“The structure of a fully articulated profession is such that those who enter its precincts will find that the basic decisions, about where to look, what to do, and how to do it, have already been made.”
“Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.”
“We marvel at them; we read them aloud to our friends and spouses, even, occasionally, to passersby; we analyze them; we lament our inability to match them.”
“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”
“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.”
“Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.”