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“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Avoid pompous words and fancy phrases.”

— Robert W. Bly

“Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, “deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it…

— Ralph Keyes

“The ones who’re so upset about everybody not being the same, about competition, about standards of quality, about art objects having ’auras’ around them,…

— Tom Robbins

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“INTERVIEWER Have you ever been envious of another writer? WODEHOUSE No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too grateful to…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Prestidigitation had been my favorite. It was fun to say, too, a good word to work into random sentences. It was a wonder I…

— Annie Bellet

“I can't bear literary snobbery.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Do you have vodka?” “Vodka?” “Yes. All good conversations start with a shot of vodka.” “Not where I’m from. All good conversations start with…

— Marquita Valentine

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious,…

— William Strunk, Jr

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his…

— John Green