One writes so as not to be interrupted.
May 182015
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
May 142015
Brevity is admired: prolixity is paid.
May 122015
The great contemporary leveller of class distinctions is automated spell-checking.
Apr 092015
Imitation is the most sincere, but parody is the most flattering.
Apr 082015
I regret all of my exclamation points, most of my semicolons, half of my em-dashes, some of my question marks, and none of my periods.
Mar 272015
Reading, unless it’s for writing, is high-class idling.
Mar 112015
Elaboration annoys the clever without satisfying the dim.
Feb 202015
When you list four sources in a footnote, you have forty; when you list three, you have three.
Jan 122015
What we call realism in fiction is only a bit of reality-tinsel to decorate the old myths.
Dec 262014
To write is to attempt to assemble a serviceable cottage from the ruins of the castle of thought.