You must write to the people's expertise.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.