Noted and Quoted: Good Advice for All Blog Writers

"I was learning that one writes for a reader. Writing is too often described as self-expression. But writing is the art of making a story that will engage and hold and satisfy the interest of the reader. I typed a slogan and pinned it over my typewriter: Nobody Owes You A Reading."

• Ralph M. McInerny (philosophy professor and creator of the Father Dowling mystery series), "The Writing Life," First Things, March 2006, p. 22