I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.

Less is more.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough

The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

Know what you want and reach out eagerly for it.

Don't allow your old self to distract you from a better version of you that you could become.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.

OH ROMEO. THOU ART ROMEO. WILL YOU MARRY ME. THOU ART ROMEO.

Something must happen!

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.