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

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.

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.

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.

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.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

When you're happy, you don't count the years.

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

I'm so dope I'm illegal in 55 states