Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.
Thought is action in rehearsal.
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
Good writers are visible just behind their words.
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.