Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.