Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

A clear sentence is no accident.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet.

Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away.

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.