Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.