One praises style when there is nothing else to praise.
Nov 222018
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Sep 282018
Write briefly, and risk being misunderstood; or write at length, and assure it.
Sep 182018
The supreme accolade for a writer is to have his work attributed to Anonymous.
Sep 072018
Wisdom, to be distilled, must be acquired.
Aug 242018
Never write a bad review until the book has received too many good ones.
Jun 072018
The first rung on the ladder of literacy is pedantry, or as we now say, fact-checking.
Jun 052018
More and more authors have begun to stress the importance of being kind and generous in one’s writing. If this catches on I’m sunk.
Jun 042018
Writers are sometimes described as dissipating their books in talk, as though speaking your thoughts bars you from writing them down.
May 112018
Essay, n. An aphorism that hasn’t quite coalesced.
May 072018
We are exhorted to show regard for future generations, in books that they will have to sort through and throw away.