“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
“Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 481.
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