“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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