Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.