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

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

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

Clutter is the disease of American writing.

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