Charm Quote by Brander Matthews

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid,…

— Storm Jameson

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

— F. L. Lucas

“Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.”

— Jason Fried

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Though sometimes conflicted and seemingly restricted - grace be [the] wings of clarity.”

— T.F. Hodge

“I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being…

— John Cage

“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple…

— Stephen King

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must…

— Eudora Welty

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

— Syd Field

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

— Iris Chang

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that…

— Jeremy Taylor