Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
Never hurry and never worry!
To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
A schoolchild should be taught grammar – for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.
It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog’s nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
But real life is only one kind of life – there is also the life of the imagination.
Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
Write about it by day and dream about it by night.
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they.