Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.

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.

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

Love like the morning sun

Sometimes, you've got to forget life's lessons, trust your heart and give'mistake' a second chance.

Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

If you love someone let them go. If they return to you it was meant to be. If they don't their love was never yours to begin with.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.