Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
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I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.
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Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But when your beard is partly or largely grey, that stubble can just look a little unwashed. Sadly, when you're over 50, different rules apply.
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The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them, that they are a woman's affair, then you can hardly complain that he doesn't have any style sense. You all make this bed.
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A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.
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A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.