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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.