Writes Quotes

Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: "assistance" (help), "numerous"...

Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figu...

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If...

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If...

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the d...

There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom...

But apart from these lazinesses of logic, what makes the story so tired is the failure of the writer...

There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where ...