The seventh in our popular Words of Wisdom series The Writer Says summons readers to an intimate gathering of novelists essayists grammarians academics and journalistsa glittering cocktail party where the guests may be self identified introverts like Patti Smith who writes to set herself apart cocooned rapt in solitude but share their sparkling insights in this volume. Among the celebrated international guest list Henry James and Mark Twain squaring off about modifiers James pro and Twain con C