There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
The best writing is rewriting.
A right is a responsibility in reverse.
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
Loneliness is a strange gift.
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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