It is more common to talk well than to listen well, and to write well than to read well.
Nov 282019
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Oct 312019
Journalism is the first draft of history, shortly to reside with all other first drafts.
Oct 282019
Academic press: Books that no one will read at prices that no one will pay.
Oct 182019
Writing and computer programming are usually done worse when they are done for money.
Oct 082019
We play with words when we run out of thoughts.
Sep 182019
If no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money, then world literature is almost entirely the province of blockheads.
Aug 292019
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward plagiarism.
Aug 122019
Nothing is as trashy as academic discourse about trash.
Aug 092019
A field that uncomprehendingly imitates the methods of a more prestigious field will also imitate its style: the result being writing that not even the author understands.
Aug 012019
All criticism is destructive, differing only in tact and degree.