“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

Aldous Huxley

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."

Horace

"Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly."

C J Cherryh

"I can’t write five words but that I change seven."

Dorothy Parker

"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short."

Henry David Thoreau

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

Thomas Jefferson