Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

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

Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.