Absence Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Jason Fried

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

— William Zinsser

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

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must…

— Eudora Welty

“Writing means organizing your thoughts. If your mind is scattered, your writing is scattered. If your mind is focused, your writing will be clear.…

— Robert Peate

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

— Tim Ferriss

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being…

— John Cage

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple…

— Stephen King

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo