Dave Font

“To achieve style, begin by affecting none.”
― E.B. White, The Elements of Style

“I remember a day in class when he leaned forward, in his characteristic pose - the pose of a man about to impart a secret and croaked, "If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! "This comical piece of advice struck me as sound at the time, and I still respect it. Why compound ignorance with inaudibility? Why run and hide?”
― E.B. White, The Elements of Style

“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.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly