Those Rituals Of Getting Ready To Write

If You Would Learn A Thing, Straightway Declare Yourself A Professor Of It!

The First Obligation Of The Writer Is To Be Interesting. To Be Interesting; Not To Change The World.

Self Knowledge Is Always Bad News.

It's Easier And Sociabler To Talk Technique Than It Is To Make Art.

My Dear Fellow,' Burlingame Said, 'we Sit Here On A Blind Rock Careening Through Space; We Are All Of Us Rushing Headlong To The Grave. Think You The Worms Will Care, When Anon They Make A Meal Of You, Whether You Spent Your Moment Sighing Wigless In Your Chamber, Or Sacked The Golden Towns Of Montezuma? Lookee, The Day's Nigh Spent; 'tis Gone Careening Into Time Forever. Not A Tale's Length Past We Lined Our Bowels With Dinner, And Already They Growl For More. We Are Dying Men, Ebenezer: I'faith, There's Time For Naught But Bold Resolves!