Clutter is the disease of American writing.

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

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

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

Writing is thinking on paper.