People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.

Telling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia.

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

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

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

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.