One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you...
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.
...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... {"Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read"}
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.