A clear sentence is no accident.

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.