The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

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

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

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.