“There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it. Caleb C. Colton [1780-1832]”

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”

“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

“People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links t...”