Brevity Quote by William Zinsser Download Open image “Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.” — William Zinsser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Clarity Four Humanity Inspirational Premises Simplicity Writing
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 Copy Share Image
“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.” — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
