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Reader Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object…
- Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
- No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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