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

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

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will …

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

I knew it long ago: I'm a compulsive teacher, but I can't teach. The godawful state of today's education system isn't what's stopping me. I lack at least two o…

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…

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.