“The writer who has a definite meaning to express will not take refuge in such vagueness.”
― The Elements of Style
― The Elements of Style
“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”
― The Elements of Style
― The Elements of Style
“there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“
Prestigious.
Often an adjective of last resort. It's in the dictionary, but that doesn't mean you have to us it.”
― The Elements of Style
― The Elements of Style
“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 his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
― The Elements of Style
― The Elements of Style
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