Writing is thinking on paper.
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.
Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.
Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.