Writing is a craft not an art.

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.

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Youth is a time of tremendous energy. You should look at the possibilities, not the problems.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.