My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

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

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.