for the love of writing

...whatever success I have had has been through writing what I know about.”

"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock—to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures."

—Flannery O'Conno... See more

The reason to make a big deal out of licence is this: we have to dismantle the censors in our heads. There’s a sense in which that means dismantling our selves. A bank clerk doesn’t have to do it, nobody really has to but us. One reason we’re held back in writing is the restraints which have been installed as part of our civilisation and preparatio... See more