Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

You learn to write by writing.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.