As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.

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

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

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