spend fabricating solid worlds that answer to immaterial truths. (Location 164)
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place. (Location 221)
The writer knows his field—what has been done, what could be done, the limits—the way a tennis player knows the court. And like that expert, he, too, plays the edges. (Location 663)
It is no less difficult to write sentences in a recipe than sentences in Moby-Dick. So you might as well write Moby-Dick. (Location 693)
