“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”

“It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.”

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately and effectively as he can, his style will take care of itself.”

“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings”