To Write Is Human, To Edit Is

As It Happened, All Three Of Us Turned Out To Be Real Writers--a Coincidence Almost Too Large To Be Termed Mere Coincidence In A Society Where Literally Tens Of Thousands (maybe Hundreds Of Thousands) Of College Students Aspire To The Writer's Trade And Where Bare Hundreds Actually Break Through.

The First Draft Of A Book—even A Long One—should Take No More Than Three Months, The Length Of A Season.

Sometimes The Things Presented To Us As Choices Aren't Choices At All.

The Loss Of Memory Isn't Always The Problem; Sometimes--maybe Even Often--it's The Solution.

Hairstyles Change, And Skirt Lengths, And Slang, But High School Administrations? Never.