John McPhee

You must be willing to be surprised by what you find.

A sentence should be an experience.

The first sentence is the hardest.

To write is to make a decision about the order of things.

A writer is someone who has written something.

Every word counts in a narrative.

The writer’s job is to find the material that will make the story come alive.

The writer is a collector of moments.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

The challenge is to make the mundane interesting.