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.

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.

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.

Editors are licensed to be curious.

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.