I Teach A Non-fiction Writing

You Have To Appreciate The Spiritual Component Of Having An Opportunity To Do Something As Wondrous As Writing. You Should Be Practical And Smart And You Should Have A Good Agent And You Should Work Really, Really Hard. But You Should Also Be Filled With Awe And Gratitude About This Amazing Way To Be In The World.

There Was A Time When I Kept Track Of It All; When My Mind Worked Like A Giant Lint Brush Being Swept Over The Fuzzy Surface Of Popular Culture. But These Days, Pop Culture Seems To Have Gotten Fuzzier And Fuzzier; Notoriety Comes And Goes In The Snap Of A Finger.

There's A Marvelous Sense Of Mastery That Comes With Writing A Sentence That Sounds Exactly As You Want It To.

I Want To Let My Friend Buster Know That I Would Like To Have Dinner With Him Tonight. Does Buster Work At Home? Then How Likely Is He To Have His Cell Phone On? Is He One Of Those People Who Only Turns On His Cell When He's In His Car? I Hate That.

The Genius Of A Folk Melody Or Story Is Not The Feeling That It's Original But Quite The Opposite - The Feeling That It Has Existed All Along.