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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.