“There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Egger...”

“Dont try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audienceevery reader is a different person.”

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. ...”

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

“Less is more.”

“Vulnerability has a strength of its own.”

“I confess... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.”

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compr...”

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”

“Im a little bit of a plot junkie. I like stakes in my books. Sometimes storytelling gets a bit of a bad rap. Plots easy or theres a higher art we are all aspiring to. Yes, first and foremost we are...”

“See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.”