Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

Literature makes one sensitive, sensitive to people, to their dreams and to their ideas.

Sanghamitra Iyengar

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Don Marquis

Those three thoughts want to mesh together in my mind to help me see the character of meaningful writing. It is not enough too organize information, or ideas, in an orderly and grammatical manner. I must be sensitive to the expectations of the people who will read what I write, and stroke the writing until it will capture and maintain their attention, and lead their thoughts out of the old familiar rut.