Ill-fitting Grammar Are Like Ill-fitting Shoes. You

Writing Needs To Be Practiced; There Is A Limit To How Much Can Be Gleaned From A Teacher Or A Manual. The True Essence Of Writing Is Out There, In The World, And Inside, Within Yourself. To Write, You Have To Give.

I Didn't Set Out To Discover A Truth. I Was Actually Sent To The Outer Fringes To Conduct A Chair Census And Learn Some Humility. But The Truth Inevitably Found Me, As Important Truths Often Do, Like A Lost Thought In Need Of A Mind.

So My Humor, I'd Say, Comes From A Mixture Of Lowbrow Comedy Shows And Highbrow Theater. It's An Interesting Mix.

Reality Tv Was To Me The Worst Form Of Entertainment--the Modern Equivalent Of Paying Sixpence To Watch Lunatics Howling At The Wall Down At The Local Madhouse.

Reading, I Had Learned, Was As Creative A Process As Writing, Sometimes More So. When We Read Of The Dying Rays Of The Setting Sun Or The Boom And Swish Of The Incoming Tide, We Should Reserve As Much Praise For Ourselves As For The Author. After All, The Reader Is Doing All The Work - The Writer Might Have Died Long Ago.