Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.