“Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.”
“Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”
“It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word”
“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”
“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design. ”