We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in it's all there at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual...
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly caught in the...
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I...
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A...
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are...
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic and the idealistic not feminine.