Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.