Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.