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Writing

If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.

Nov 112016
 

If you believe the reviewers when they call you a genius, you will believe them when they call you a fool.

Nov 092016
 

What you don’t know you can’t leave out.

Oct 182016
 

Literary talent consists largely in pronouncing sonorous absurdities with absolute conviction.

Jul 282016
 

Nobody writes for the love of it. At best you write because it is less painful than not writing.

Jul 252016
 

Poetry translations ought to have their credits reversed — poems by [translator], after [original poet].

Jul 122016
 

The adverb confesses the verb’s failure.

Jun 232016
 

Your most reliable and attentive readers are the people who hate you.