But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

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

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

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

Thought is action in rehearsal.

A clear sentence is no accident.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.

Everything begins to feel right when we see the world in a different way."Living Beyond the Five Senses

Be the spouse you wish to have.

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.