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

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to the education and rank.

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.