Quote of the Day (John McPhee, on How ‘Writing is Selection’)

“Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language.”—Nonfiction writer John McPhee, “Writing by Omission,” The New Yorker, Sept 14, 2015

Quote of the Day (Meghan Daum, on Writing on One’s Self vs. Syria)

“Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria –unfortunately. Unless the foreign correspondent is writing about loving his cat more than his wife.” —Essayist Meghan Daum, quoted in Joanna Scutts, “Meghan Daum: 'I Don't Confess in My Work –That Implies Guilt,” The Guardian (U.K.), Nov. 18, 2014