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

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

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

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.

The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.

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

Telling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia.