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

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.