Most Of The Cruelty In The World

Try To Read Your Own Work As A Stranger Would Read It, Or Even Better, As An Enemy Would.

They Had Nothing To Say To Each Other. A Five-year Age Gap Between Siblings Is Like A Garden That Needs Constant Attention. Even Three Months Apart Allows The Weeds To Grow Up Between You.

The Young People Have A Phrase For This Now, Which Is "slay In Your Lane." That's A Very Important Principle Of Writing. You Have To Work Out What It Is You Can't Do, Obscure It, And Focus On What Works.

All Tastes Are Expressions Of Belief.

I Often Worry That My Idea Of Personhood Is Nostalgic, Irrational, Inaccurate.