Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.