What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?
Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.
The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.
If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking. . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.
People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution.
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.