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I Would Say That The Writers I Like And Trust Have At The Base Of Their Prose Something Called The English Sentence. An Awful Lot Of Modern Writing Seems To Me To Be A Depressed Use Of Language. Once, I Called It "vow-of-poverty Prose." No, Give Me The King In His Countinghouse. Give Me Updike.

Don't Dumb Down; Always Write For Your Top Five Percent Of Readers.

Perhaps There Are Other Bits Of My Life That Would Take On Content, Take On Shadow, If Only I Read More And Thought Less About Money.

When Policemen Go To Prison In England, They Have As Bad A Time As A Pedophile.

Every Day, The Dispensing Of Existence.... Its Face Is Fierce And Distant And Ancient.