Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

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

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.