Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

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.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.