Writing is thinking on paper.

Less is more.

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process

As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an objective eye on the reader.

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think in
Therefore threatening ways?

It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word