Computers Quote by William Strunk, Jr

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessay sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk Jr

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines…

— William Strunk, Jr

Vigorous writing is concise.

— William Strunk, Jr

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components,

— Anonymous

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

— Alejandro Zambra

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence…

— Jasper Fforde

“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.”

— David Foster Wallace

One tends to write beyond what's needed

— James Schuyler

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a…

— Fran Lebowitz

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben