P. J. O'Rourke Quote

All writers know how hard it is to practice tough love on the children of our verbiage. Kick, the silly, labored metaphor out of the house. But with a computer, that metaphor is back by dinner time, claiming a rightful place in the family of the final draft.


The New York Times (8 October 2001)


All writers know how hard it is to practice tough love on the children of our verbiage. Kick, the silly, labored metaphor out of the house. But with...

All writers know how hard it is to practice tough love on the children of our verbiage. Kick, the silly, labored metaphor out of the house. But with...

All writers know how hard it is to practice tough love on the children of our verbiage. Kick, the silly, labored metaphor out of the house. But with...

All writers know how hard it is to practice tough love on the children of our verbiage. Kick, the silly, labored metaphor out of the house. But with...