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

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.

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

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

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.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.