Accounting Quote by Claire B. May Gordon S. May

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

— Rudolf Flesch

“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and 'To conclude'.”

— John Green

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a…

— Mark Twain

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

“If you want to write faster, the first step is to know what you're writing before you write it.”

— Rachel Aaron

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

— James Thurber

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

— William Zinsser

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away…

— Bernard Cornwell

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the…

— Thomas Bernhard

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

— Anonymous

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

— Edith Wharton