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.

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

Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

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