Writers are sometimes described as dissipating their books in talk, as though speaking your thoughts bars you from writing them down.
Jun 042018
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
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.
Apr 302018
Grisham’s Law: Bad books drive out good.
Apr 242018
The makers of history know too little of how it will turn out, and the writers know too much.
Apr 202018
We would have far fewer and far better books if they could only be published posthumously.
Apr 112018
Always speak Truth to Power, once you’re sure Power isn’t going to option your novel.
Mar 072018
Prose should rarely be poetic, and poetry never.
Mar 062018
The writer proposes: the reader disposes.
Dec 132017
Never read your old writing. It will displease you, or worse, please you.