I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.