All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.