Be grateful for every word you can cut.

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.

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

the only realistic choice is to follow your dreams

Soldiers strike the foe in the face!

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength

It's better not to argue with women.