Books Quote by Jonathan Lethem

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would…

— Elif Batuman

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the…

— Paul Auster

“Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.”

— Jason Fried

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of…

— David Nicholls

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

— Jerzy Kosinski

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

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

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

Clarity of communication is important.

— Lisa Su

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