The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.