When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.