The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative - good old-fashioned storytelling - is what should pull your readers along without their noticing the tug.

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

Be grateful for every word you can cut.

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

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

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.