## Metadata - Author: - Full Title: My Writing Education: A Timeline - The New Yorker - Category: #articles - URL: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/my-writing-education-a-timeline ## Highlights - What we’re doing in writing is not all that different from what we’ve been doing all our lives, i.e., using our personalities as a way of coping with life. Writing is about charm, about finding and accessing and honing ones’ particular charms. - Tags: [[favorite]] - Toby is a powerful man: in his physicality, in his experiences, in his charisma. But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness. - Tags: [[favorite]]