Education Quote by Ken Scott

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

“short letters take a long time to write,”

— Marc Cameron

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re…

— Stephen King

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“In another surprise, when letters are omitted from words in a text, requiring the reader to supply them, reading is slowed, and retention improves.”

— Peter C. Brown

“All short stories long.”

— Ali Smith

“I write long pieces because I don’t have time to write short ones..”

— Trey Jones

“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.”

— Winston Churchill

“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

— Jane Austen

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace…

— Martin Millar

“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs. Long sentences…

— Harry Beckwith