If you can't be funny, be interesting.

I understand the hero (of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms) keeps getting in bed with women, and the war wasn't fought that way

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.