The difference between the right word and the almost right word
is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” – Mark Twain
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” – Shakespeare
“A writer is someone for
whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” - Thomas Mann
“A non-writing writer is
a monster courting insanity.” – Franz
Kafka
“Yes, it takes longer to write a shorter sentence, but it’s
worth it.” – Scott Gillum
“Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. ” – Judy Blume
“The true enemy of man is generalization.” - Czesław Miłosz in Testimony to the
Invisible: Essays on Swedenborg
“You don’t write because
you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Not a wasted word. This
has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.” – Hunter S. Thompson
“An artist’s only concern
is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone
else’s.” – J.D. Salinger
“To write is human, to
edit is divine.” – Stephen King
“It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense” – Mark Twain
“If you wind up boring
yourself, you can pretty much bank on the fact that you’re going to bore your
reader.” – Ann Patchett
