Advent Quote by Donald A. Norman

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat…

— Ted Nelson

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

— John Legend

You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me…

— Masha Tupitsyn

“A 1989 study showed that readers of hypertext often ended up clicking distractedly “through pages instead of reading them carefully.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think…

— Colin Nissan

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to…

— Ralph Fletcher

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating…

— Bill Watterson

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the…

— Daniel Alarcon

The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid…

— Sue Grafton

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so…

— R. S. Thomas