There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
It’s possible to become so comfortable with one’s style and structure that one ceases to grow
It’s possible to become so comfortable with one’s style and structure that one ceases to grow.
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down
Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
Grown men do not need leaders
Grown men do not need leaders.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.