Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

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

Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don't know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they're always looking for something new.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

A clear sentence is no accident.

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.