The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
Be not a slave of words.
The press is the enemy.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
The desire to write grows with writing.
It’s never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
The medium is the message.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
