Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing. Richard Rhodes Read Quote
I’ve puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I’ve identified its source: It’s their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That’s what consciousness is. Richard Rhodes Read Quote
Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking. Richard Rhodes Read Quote
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea… Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that’s interesting. Richard Rhodes Read Quote
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven’t figured out about whom. Richard Rhodes Read Quote
Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed. Richard Rhodes Read Quote
