Constance Hale Quotes

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• Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man…
• Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
• I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet!…
• Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand…
• Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
• Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of…
• A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the…
• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important…
• There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences…
• Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point…
• Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them…
• In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader…
• Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
• The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

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