A writer is a person who has turned the fact that his bark is worse than his bite into a professional qualification.
Apr 032020
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Mar 312020
No writer can parody himself properly, except by accident.
Mar 202020
Good style confers unearned authority.
Mar 132020
In matters of opinion, the choices are anodyne or wrong; punditry is the art of combining them.
Mar 022020
Writing carries the small but ever-present danger of being understood.
Feb 282020
The good reader blames himself first for obscurity, and to punish this habit with nonsense is worse than bad writing: it is depraved conduct.
Feb 212020
Aphorism: A blank page spoiled.
Feb 072020
The price of writing for one audience is the others.
Jan 222020
The critic’s indispensable service is not to praise greatness, which makes its own way in the world, but to refrain from praising mediocrity, which requires his assistance.
Jan 202020
All authors dream of a posthumous reputation, none of posthumous sales.