F. L. Lucas

“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”

“Clarity, clarity, clarity! When you become hopelessly mired in a sentence, it is best to start fresh.”

“Good sense is not a substitute for genius, but genius is no substitute for good sense.”

“Style is the power to move freely in the length and breadth of one's own mind.”

“Most of the world's troubles are due to the fact that man has come to be a slave to his machines who does not know how to manage them wisely.”

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous.”

“How is clarity to be acquired? Mainly by taking trouble; and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.”

“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.”

“To write is to show oneself.”

“Men are not changed by logic alone.”

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”

“The first virtue of a style is to be simple and direct.”

“The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests somebody else.”

“If an author is to be criticized, it is not for what he has not done, but for what he has done.”