Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

A writer is always working.

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

Writing is thinking on paper.

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.