When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.