I very seldom read back into what I've written.
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.
When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?
