Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

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

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.