And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.