What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.