Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.
The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.
Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change.
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do