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

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

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

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

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

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

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