Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. — Wilson Follett Copy Share
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett Copy Share
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them. — Wilson Follett Copy Share
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett Copy Share
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. — Wilson Follett Copy Share
