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1959·New York, United States
Rudyard Kipling·1923Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
William Strunk Jr.·1918Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.
Napoleon Bonaparte·1815I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
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.
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.
