📖On writing well: the classic guide to writing nonfiction

p.5 “Utimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.”

p.9 “If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”

p.21 use I

p.22 “Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”

p.24 you are writing for yourself. put in whatever you like and don’t try to imagine mass audience

p.25 ^ This only concerns the larger issue of what you’re trying to say and whether the reader likes you. There is still no excuse for losing readers through sloppy workmanship

p.25 mechanical vs creative act

p.25 “Never say anything in writing that you wouldn’t comfortably say in conversation.”

p.41 “I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.”

p.52 your writing should leave the reader with one provocative thought

p.91 “there is no subject you don’t have permission to write about”