Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

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

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

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.