There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

A clear sentence is no accident.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

It was a real party of swells.

You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

Humility is recognizing we can't give anything to God that He hasn't already given to us.

I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both 'The Dark Knight' and 'Mamma Mia!' on their shared opening weekend.

I was mostly into comedies, growing up. That still will always be my favorite thing.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.