A clear sentence is no accident.

Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

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

People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

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.