Write what you know that’s not yourself.
May 062016
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Apr 072016
If all writing were scrupulously edited for spelling and grammar, it would be just about as bad.
Mar 282016
Clarity tends to banality, and obscurity tends to nonsense.
Mar 242016
A great part of writing is the audacity to say “men are” when you mean “I am.”
Mar 072016
In bygone days, when an author did not hear continuously from his readers, he was less inclined to patronize them.
Feb 232016
I am beginning to hope that the mark of a good aphorism is the number of uses it can be put to of which its author would not approve.
Feb 162016
I write mostly for intellectuals, and mostly against them.
Feb 102016
That truth is stranger than fiction ought to embarrass novelists considerably.
Jan 112016
Rhetoric, n. An argument that one is unwilling to believe and unable to refute. Cf. sophistry.
Jan 052016
If it can be translated, it’s not literature.