Raymond Chandler:
“A good title is the title of a successful book.”
Raymond Chandler:
“A good title is the title of a successful book.”

Elbert Hubbard:
“Grammar is the grave of letters.”

Helen Simpson:
“The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying ‘Faire et se taire‘ (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as ‘Shut up and get on with it.'”

Neil Gaiman:
“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”

Elmore Leonard:
“Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. If you have the knack of playing with exclaimers the way Tom Wolfe does, you can throw them in by the handful.”
