His Quote by Donald E. Westlake

“Serious history was the West, and the West was white.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

— George Eliot

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

— Jean-Francois Millet

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or…

— John Ruskin

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

— Seneca the Younger

“It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to resources.”

— Steven S. Skiena

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

— Marshall McLuhan

“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want…

— William S. Wilson

“Standard English as it is presented by grammarians and pedants is a dialect that is based on a mostly fictional, static, and Platonic ideal…

— Kory Stamper

“However, though we may never achieve perfect transparency, we can limit the impact of personal bias upon the process of interpretation by giving the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced, precise, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.

— David Hume