There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume that their teachers will regard those topics as 'stupid.' No area of life is stupid to someone who takes it seriously. If you follow your affections you will write well and will engage your readers.

I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.