Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Editors are licensed to be curious.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.