Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

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.

How can I shut downIf you don't open up??

How we need another soul to cling to.

Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.