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

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

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

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.