When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is na…

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

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.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, an…