My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichés.

Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.

Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.