Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

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

Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don't know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they're always looking for something new.

Be grateful for every word you can cut.

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