What else is soul but a listener?

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

Getting even is one reason for writing.

What else is soul but a listener?

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.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.