Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.