Sentence:  Jim Blish once dedicated a book to me. He introduced me to the music of Charles Ives, to the taste of Vander Flip, to the urgency of avoiding the <WSD>said-bookism</WSD>, to the concept of the watershed, to the pleasures of Indo-Ceylonese food. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A verb (such as "explained", "shouted"(,) or "uttered") used to indicate dialogue when writing fiction, chosen so as to avoid using the word "said".