Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.

A writer is always working.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

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.

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.