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

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

Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.

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