“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you want to write. And you get this stuff by hoarding it, by faithfully making notes and… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down to its… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic. — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“If the good news from cyberspace is that we're writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren't very good at it.… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.” — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.” — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
