From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

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.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.