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Clear and Simple: Quotes About Writing

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.

George Polya
Hungarian mathematician
How to Solve It

Don't write merely to be understood. Write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Scottish essayist, novelist and poet

He who does not know the force of words cannot know men.

Confucius (551-479 BC)
Chinese philosopher

The idea for a new venture is likely to be strategically unsound if it can't be put into one coherent sentence.

Kenichi Ohmae
The Mind of the Strategist

No passion in the world, no love or hate, is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
English novelist, sociologist and historian

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson