The Rich Are Always Enamored Of The

I Think Of Myself As A Very Lazy Writer, Though Other People See It Differently.

Good Writing Is Clear. Talented Writing Is Energetic. Good Writing Avoids Errors. Talented Writing Makes Things Happen In The Reader's Mind - -vividly, Forcefully.

Sometimes You Want To Say Things, And You're Missing An Idea To Make Them With, And Missing A Word To Make The Idea With. In The Beginning Was The Word. That's How Somebody Tried To Explain It Once. Until Something Is Named, It Doesn't Exist.

In A Very Real Way, One Writes A Story To Find Out What Happens In It. Before It Is Written It Sits In The Mind Like A Piece Of Overheard Gossip Or A Bit Of Intriguing Tattle. The Story Process Is Like Taking Up Such A Piece Of Gossip, Hunting Down The People Actually Involved, Questioning Them, Finding Out What Really Occurred, And Visiting Pertinent Locations. As With Gossip, You Can't Be Too Surprised If Important Things Turn Up That Were Left Out Of The First-heard Version Entirely; Or If Points Initially Made Much Of Turn Out To Have Been Distorted, Or Simply Not To Have Happened At All.

In Myths Things Always Turn Into Their Opposites As One Version Supersedes The Next.