“Either you have it or you don’t”
A delicately-built woman with chiseled cheekbones clad in the simplest of clothes (a straw hat, a polo shirt and aContinue Reading
Category: Thoughts on Writing
A picture is worth a thousand words
The detective was told the murder victim found in Brooklyn had worked as a sex worker, but when he arrivedContinue Reading
“晉人風度”和當下的香港
幾年前一看到這個故事，心靈就有種莫名的觸動。
Teach writing by dancing up a storm
Among the things I revisit to maintain my sense of wonder is this one-minute video clip dating back to the1970sContinue Reading
“An infinite capacity for taking pains”
“Didn’t you know there’s a difference between ‘indicate’ and ‘point out’?” my tutor at Oxford University fired this question atContinue Reading
Writing conclusions that work
“A rope is made up of a huge number of fibres, but not a single fibre goes through its entireContinue Reading
Writer as acrobat
“A writer, like an acrobat, must occasionally try a stunt that is too much for him,’ The New Yorker editorialContinue Reading
To write well, sweat the small stuff
It was only after My Fair Lady was showing in the cinemas that its set designer Cecil Beaton noticed aContinue Reading
