Kirk Norton

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― ― E.B. White

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
― William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

“As he hurried toward the exit, he passed between the lobby’s two walls of soaring bookcases, which proudly displayed Random House classics dating back to the early 1900s, when cofounders Bennett Cerf and Donald S. Klopfer founded this company as a small reprint publisher. The founders’ literary tastes were so varied and diverse as to seem almost “random,” and they named their publishing venture accordingly.”
― Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets

“If the work weren't difficult I'd die of boredom.”
― William Gaddis