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

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.

To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

You learn to write by writing.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.