“None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.” WorldWritingTryingMayPerfect Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin to write a book, I do not know how it will come out, what it will say in the end. If I already did, I wouldn't need to write it."” IfsKnowsNeedsWritingBookEndsAsksKnow HowMy FavoriteAnecdotes Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.” WritingBookCourses Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.” PeopleWritingTryingBookRememberReadingDifficultWriting A BookBook WritingAdmonition Author:Thomas L. Dumm