With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James ThurberWhen all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
James ThurberYou are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
James Thurber