Anger has been ready to be angry.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.