Only the very cruellest novelists reproduce dialogue accurately.
Nov 272013
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Nov 142013
It’s easy to be prolific — just keep repeating yourself.
Nov 112013
Who reviews the papers of the peerless?
Oct 082013
Minor masterpiece, n. What critics call a book they think they might have written themselves with a few more evenings and weekends free.
Aug 212013
Read a lot: think some: write a little.
Jul 222013
It is difficult to write even ten words without wasting one.
Jun 182013
No novel can contain a character more intelligent than its author.
Jun 112013
No book has ever been too short.
Jun 072013
One idea suffices — for a book, for an essay, for an aphorism.
May 062013
Print overawes the illiterate just as machinery overawes the savage.