A deadline is a negative inspiration. Still, it is better than no inspiration at all.
- Rita Mae Brown
Our writing tools are also working on our thoughts.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
- C.W. Ceram
If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well.
- Albert Einstein
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hoffman
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
- George Bernard Shaw
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I would not brood. I would type a little faster.
- Isaac Asimov
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector.
- Ernest Hemingway
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
Most people will not realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
- Katherine Ann Porter
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
- Ezra Pound
The difference between the right word and the wrong word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.
- Mark Twain
Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- Mark Twain
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
- H-G. Wells