Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.

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.

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

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

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