Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

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

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."