I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~~Harold...

Well, one of them, anyway. Mark Twain was a controversial type of guy. He’s been the subject of debate plenty of times both during and after his lifetime. This one’s dicey, though. The current...

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are...

T.H. Mafi is hilarious. Here is the evidence. Go read this post on the ten phases of rejection, and try–just try!–not to laugh. I dare you. I first read it while drinking Coke. Big mistake....

If money were no object and you were free to choose, where would you live? Why? What’s missing from your life that you think you would have there? . . ...