The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

Style is important, but content comes first.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Law and justice are not the same.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.