Writing is thinking on paper.

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

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

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.