The best writing is certainly when you are in love

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.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.