Showing posts with label Stew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stew. Show all posts

Monday, April 02, 2007

Communication as an Undercooked Overcooked Stew

If you often struggle to write a speech or an address, be encouraged by these honest words by contemporary writer, Nick Hornby:

“Like a lot of writers, I can’t really stand my own writing, in the same way that I don’t really like my own cooking.”

“What I produce on my computer invariably turns out to be an equivalent of the undercooked, overcooked stewy thing, no matter how hard I try to follow the recipe, and you really don’t want to eat too much of that.”

Nick Hornby, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, London” Viking, 2006, 64, 65.

Image: "the undercooked, overcooked stewy thing."