Editing Quote by Fred Rodell

People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge…

— William Lashner

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

— Kiran Desai

When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.

— William Lashner

“It is true that too much legal writing is obfuscatory, wordy, dense and stilted. Many lawyers seem to believe that sounding like a lawyer…

— Charles M. Fox

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

— Natalie Goldberg

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

— Louise Mensch

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

— Jeffery Deaver

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

— John Connolly

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will…

— Anacharsis

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think…

— Jamaica Kincaid

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order…

— Felix Adler