Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Style is important, but content comes first.

Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.