Why Writers Writing on Writing Are Paranoid

Last updated on: November 6, 2014 at 11:30 am by David Mills

Why Writers Writing on Writing Are Paranoid 2014-11-04T23:52:08-04:00 David Mills

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At the end of a very critical review in The Spectator of John Cleese’s autobiography:

Gosh it’s dull, this book — a dreary combination of pompous self-congratulation and tetchy sarcasm! . . . [T]he only time I laughed was at a grammatical error (‘Like Graham and I, Michael and Terry, and Eric were primarily writers’).

Not every writer is a good grammarian, but still.

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