"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make." ~Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967
"Ne pisem da bih zadovoljio druge. Pisem da bih zadovoljio sebe." ~Oscar Wilde
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite." ~C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." ~C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." ~Carol Burnett (1936-)
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard." ~Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." ~John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)