I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's …

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

You don't know what I'm up against. Because it's full of, of, of things that are only correct because they're grammatical, but they're tough on the ear, you se…

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.