Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

News is history shot on the wing.