Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

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.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.