Yes!!!

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind — vividly, forcefully — that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn’t. - Samuel Delany

This is one reason why I support and encourage self-publishing. Most publishers and even many editors will dictate a writer to write within small boxes:

• "Write for your audience."
• "Stick to the grammar rules!"
• "This is too vague."
• "Don't use the first-person narrative."
• "Never, never mix point-of-views and narrators!!!"
• "You can't start a sentence with a conjunction."

Bah! Think and write outside the box! Free yourself!
- excerpted from a wonderful essay, "Good Writing vs. Talented Writing", on BrainPickings website.

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