Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

There is a greatness inherent within you. That greatness comes from God. He has bestowed each of us with unique gifts and talents to be used for kingdom building here on earth.

I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.

One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

No man can see his own prejudices.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.