“...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.”
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“Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing.”
“I'd be adrift in an ocean of uncertainty." Yes, and perhaps that's the only honest place to be. Another name for uncertainty is humility. No one ever blew up a mosque, church, or abortion clinic after yelling, "I could be wrong.”
“What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.”
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”