“You don’t tell children not to grow. And you don’t tell a writer not to write.”
John Warner
John Warner is the author of Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (Penguin, 2019). He writes the Just Visiting blog for Inside Higher Ed and a weekly column on books and reading for the Chicago Tribune. 