“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.”
“If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.”
“Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.”
“Guilt loves the passive.”
“Tone is the hardest part of saying no.”
“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”