If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

Writing is hard work.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

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.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.