It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.