Writing is a mentally difficult thing — it’s hard to know when something’s worth saying; it’s hard to be clear; it’s hard to arrange things in a way that will hold a reader’s attention; it’s hard to sound good; it’s even hard to know whether, when you change something, you’re making it better.
Tag Archives: Published Elsewhere
On Popped Collars
e.a. nakashima as quoted by Rachel Myers:
It’s like even though I went to prep school, I’m still gangster.
On Hansel and Gretel
… basically it’s a story about how unpleasant it is to be lost.
— Steve Krug, summarizing Hansel and Gretel
On secrets
A secret is something you can only tell one person … at a time.
— Allen Ginsberg
On directness
George Orwell:
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
On Nobility
Ernest Hemingway:
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
On Residents of The Castro
Drew Hoolhorst describes the type of person you might find living in San Francisco’s famously gay Castro neighborhood:
Tons of “not Republicans.”
Well fucking said, Drew.