Doing the right thing Quote by Patricia Crisafulli

“I always said capital and conservative accounting are protection. So it’s the preparation beforehand: capital, reporting, and liquidity,” Dimon added.”

— Patricia Crisafulli

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well:”

— William Zinsser

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

— Fred Barnes

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed…

— Susan Sontag

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.”

— William Zinsser

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

— Ken Macrorie

“We wrote every day, but the letters began to seem like checks drawn on the summer's capital. There had been a lot in the…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Simply put: writing is rewriting.”

— Ronald Dane