A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. That is, he does not draw on a reservoir; instead, he engages in an activity that brings to him...

zt: Leonard Cohen, Epic and Enigmatic Songwriter, Is Dead at 82 Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet and novelist who abandoned a promising literary career to become one of the foremost songwriters of the contemporary era, died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. Mr. Cohen’s record label, Sony Music, confirmed the death on Thursday night but...