Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.