Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket …

- Ted Solotaroff

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgo…

- Ted Solotaroff

A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and a…

- Ted Solotaroff

The best is good enough for me.

- Ted Solotaroff

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

- Ted Solotaroff

Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate a…

- Ted Solotaroff