Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.