If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

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