Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.
Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.
Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
A writer is always working.