You learn to write by writing.

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

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

Writing is hard work.

Writing is a craft not an art.

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

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.