The shortest way to be original is to tell the truth.
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Satire becomes easier and easier until it is impossible.
Aphorism, of all prose, is the least hospitable.
Reading great authors improves your writing by making you desperately unhappy with it.
There is almost nothing that being prefaced with “social” cannot spoil.
Poetry is language at its limit, as math is logic at its limit; and poetry anxiety, like math anxiety, is only the realization that comprehension requires effort, and the fear that even then it may never arrive.
Bad writers try to start discussions, good writers try to end them.
It is rare, in discursive writing, to encounter an argument at all, let alone a sound one.
It is a landmark in a writer’s career when he first finds his work put to purposes of which he does not approve.
A two-dollar word will also debit two dollars from your account when you use it incorrectly.