The thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a great slab of prose at the start.
P.G. Wodehouse
Quotes
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
While one person hesitates
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Earnest Hemmingway
We are all apprentices
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.’
Helen Simpson
The nearest I have
One editor or art director might see little or nothing in your work, but another can see everything. Keep on.
Deborah Marcero