[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
Being is the great explainer.
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but. . . most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.