“If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. ”

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work!”

“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.”

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.”

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”