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Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a…
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The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
— Eugene Delacroix
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ours are the only farmers who can read Homer
— Thomas Jefferson
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I…
— John Keats
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head…
— Voltaire
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece…
— Victor Hugo
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching…
— Ernest Hemingway
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine…
— Unknown Author
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Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.
— Matt Groening
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
— Harold Bloom
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