I Know That To Write You Have

Being A Professional Writer Is Not An Easy Way To Make A Living.

I Want My Prose To Be As Clear As A Pane Of Glass.

The Problem Is Fundamental... It Is As If A Secret Committee, Now Lost To History, Has Made A Study Of Children And, Having Figured Out What The Greatest Number Were Least Disposed To Declared That All Of Them Should Do It.

If You Live In The Same Small Place Long Enough, Something You Don't Like Is Bound To Happen

I Am Grateful To Stacy Schiff First Of All Because She Can Write A Sentence-because She Offers Us Her Scholarship With Wit, Clarity, And Grace. Once Again, She Has Done What Only The Best Writers Can Do: She Has Made The World New, Again.