“Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 130.
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“Good writing is lean and confident.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 114.
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 1, The Transaction, p. 6.
“Good writers are visible just behind their words.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 4, Style, p. 23.