January 2010
12 posts
“There’s no sentence too short to be acceptable in the eyes of God.”
– William Zinsser in Writing Good English
“The epidemic I’m most worried about isn’t swine flu. It’s the death of logical...”
– William Zinsser in Writing Good English
“So remember: Simple is good. Writing is not something you have to embroider...”
– William Zinsser in Writing Good English
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the...”
– Henry David Thoreau, from this address.
“Writing to ‘get it right the first time’ is like driving a car with the...”
– Joan Bolker (via merlin)
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
– Isaac Newton (via johannal) (via quote-book)