If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

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.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

A clear sentence is no accident.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

Writing is hard work.

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.