Using Adverbs Is A Mortal

There Are Some People Who Have Been Reading Me For Years, And They Keep Saying Kind Things About The Writing. That's What You're Writing For, To Get People To Respond To It.

There Are 500 Million People On Facebook, But What Are They Saying To Each Other? Not Much.

I'm Not Going To Write For Posterity. I'm Going To Write To Make A Buck.

My Most Important Rule Is One That Sums Up The 10: If It Sounds Like Writing, I Rewrite It.

Never Open A Book With Weather. There Are Exceptions. If You Happen To Be Barry Lopez, Who Has More Ways To Describe Ice And Snow Than An Eskimo, You Can Do All The Weather Reporting You Want.