Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

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.

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.