Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.