the art of writing

If you really want to understand a topic, don’t read about it, write about it.

Writers serve the public as historians of vibe. What does it feel like to be here, now?

"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."

The novelist Jennifer Egan says, “You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.”

I think that greatness is best described as “invisibility.” Great writing is invisible. It might take you a minute or two to get into the flow, but once you’re reading it, you’re flowing through it and don’t even realize you are reading words. Your mind is hallucinating the story for you, so seamlessly that it feels like you’re imagining it for... See more