All William Strunk, Jr. Quotes
- Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so. Announcing
- Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating. Digest
- Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the… Adjective
- Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate,… Admire
- Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason. Call
- None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right. Fallible
- 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… Concise
- Omit needless words. Needless