“Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.” KnowsWritingTakenTradeExtremesConfessionMultitudesIncompetenceCredentials Author:George V. Higgins
“The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.” IfsKnowsShouldBelieveLittlesBitsInterestFitLittle BitBaseballAbidingClumsy Book:The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town Source: The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town
“A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.” KnowsWritingLongStuffKnowingTroubleReaderLong TimeSillySubstitutesCopLong Time AgoSilly Stuff Author:George V. Higgins
