Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.