“As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.”
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As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
