E.B. White

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and you are as good as dead, although you may make a nice living.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.

It is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style — all mannerisms, tricks, adornments.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

The adjective hasn't yet been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.