Good writing is lean and confident.

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

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

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.

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

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.