The real art of writing is, of course, in rewriting.

Every book is a marathon.

Stories are fundamental to the human experience.

All writing is guilty until proven innocent.

Critical theory can’t be presented as artfully as poetry or fiction!

Most everyone who wrote anything worth a damn throughout history wrote it longhand first, after all—typewriters were only invented in the mid-1800s.

ppl are more honest in writing.

Poetry, huh? Isn’t that what the very best writing is, in some way or another? Aristotle laid it out in his Poetics, poetic in itself. Dante, first and foremost a poet, invented a language for heaven’s sake. Then there’s Shakespeare, every bit the poet that he was dramatist.

Oh, coffee! Your laxative effect can pinion the alae you allow to grow and normally so gracefully flap and spread to soar.