Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

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.

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Imagination is a form of seeing

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.