Amount Quote by Ansel Adams

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your…

— Tom Weston-Jones

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

— Wislawa Szymborska

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

— Anne Rice

I'm increasingly conscious of the fact that, even when we know a lot, there's an element of blind faith. For things to work well,…

— Rosalia

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

— Samuel Johnson

I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult…

— R. A. Lafferty

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely…

— Hunter S. Thompson

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be…

— Eric Hoffer

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

— David Sedaris

Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin