"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts."
---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"...the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story."
---Anthony de Mello
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
---Kathleen Norris
"Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free."
---Henry David Thoreau
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success -- but only if you persist."
---Isaac Asimov
"If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs." ---unknown
"You will never know happiness until you have known sadness; the only way to experience success, is to have experienced failure."
---unknown
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
---Benjamin Franklin
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find
information upon it.”
---Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), statement made April 18, 1775
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
---Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The best style is the style you don't notice."
---Somerset Maugham
"As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out."
---Mark Twain
"A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."
---W. Somerset Maugham
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
---Winston Churchill
“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”
---Unknown