Effective writing is all about fascination—being instructed and fed by it, following where it leads, submitting to its word choices . . .

THE DISCERNING WRITER, the writer who respects his audience and his craft will consider execution with the same weight, or gravity, he...

Appetite reflects what you love and how you love it, so it cannot help but reflect what and how you write.

You don't have to have the psychology for it, but it helps. I have always been fond of the locked door (our psychologies are one of the

I AM NOT SURE I HAVE experienced anything as moving, and possibly as weird as receiving this picture from a stranger earlier this year...