To write is to attempt to assemble a serviceable cottage from the ruins of the castle of thought.
Dec 262014
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Dec 222014
To be paid for opinions corrupts; and to be paid for particular opinions corrupts absolutely.
Dec 032014
It takes a lot of time and trouble to write a bad book.
Oct 142014
There are ways of putting things, and each way is a different thing.
Sep 112014
Two hundred years ago to call a man a poet implied that he was a god; today it implies that he is a fool.
Aug 192014
The reader will often reject, when it is explained and argued for, what he would swallow if it were stated baldly and unadorned.
Aug 062014
Less garbage was written when it had to be written by hand.
May 232014
You may not get the size of audience you deserve, but you always get the kind.
May 022014
Omit, in order of ascending importance, superfluous words, sentences, paragraphs, articles, chapters, and books.
Apr 242014
No style guide can address the chief defect in writing, which is having nothing to say.