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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

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I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then…
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to…
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the…
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
Writing is thinking on paper.
Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.

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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. — William Zinsser
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come. — Ayn Rand

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