“Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
Robert Southey

“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”
Josh Billings

“Watch your speech ... command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it’s the most exciting form of communication mankind has evolved.”
Oren Arnold

“I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.”
Carolyn Warner

“Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down and write it as it occurs to you. The writing is easy – it’s the occurring that’s hard.”
Stephen Leacock

“Early in my ministry ... I discovered that as windows admit light to a house, quotations and illustrations can shed clarity on a lesson, sermon or speech.”
George Sweeting

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”
George Orwell

“I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.”
Dorothy L. Sayers

“If you’re offered an honorarium for a speech, you can be sure the money is of no consequencium.”
Merle Miller