You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

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

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.