As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
John HodgmanWhen you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.
John HodgmanThere's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
John Hodgman