I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

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.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

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.

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.