There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

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

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

One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.