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

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.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

You learn to write by writing.

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.

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

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.