We read, and imagine we can write; and write, and imagine we can think.
Aug 102020
Writing
If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.
Aug 042020
You need not be anonymous as long as no one stupid can understand you.
Jun 122020
At fifty everyone has the prose style he deserves.
Jun 012020
Clear, brief, precise — choose two.
May 262020
In good prose lies sound unnatural.
Apr 212020
If journalism is the first draft of history, we know how far to trust history.
Apr 092020
It is an insult to be paid by the word.
Apr 032020
A writer is a person who has turned the fact that his bark is worse than his bite into a professional qualification.
Mar 312020
No writer can parody himself properly, except by accident.
Mar 202020
Good style confers unearned authority.