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

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

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.

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 …

Read, read, read. Read everything- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the mast…

I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Oberma…

You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don'…