I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.