A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

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.

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

Good writing is lean and confident.