The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

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

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.