“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.” - Kurt Vonnegut Fellow literature nerds will know that just by naming this piece “Why I Write,” I am inviting ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

Why do I write columns? Because I can. I mean that literally, Heaven knows I’ve tried every other form of writing — poems, essays, lectures, research papers, commencement speeches, plays, books, ...

There’s been much discussion about the needless complexity of academic writing. In a widely read article in The Chronicle of Higher Education last year, Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at ...

I have been using a 10-year diary. As the name suggests, it is a diary designed to be used over a decade. When unfolded, the encyclopedia-thick diary reveals 10 sections under a single date. If today ...

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