Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

I have read but little of Madame Glyn. I did not know that things like It were going on. I have misspent my days. When I think of all those hours I flung away …

Would you like to sin With Elinor Glyn On a tiger skin? Or would you prefer To err With her On some other fur?

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Also Johnn Lydgate Wryteth after an hyer rate; It is dyffuse to fynde The sentence of his mynde, Yet wryteth he in his kynd, No man that can amend Those maters…