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Wit and Wisdom>
Writing
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts." -- Strunk and White: The Elements of Style
"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words." -- Hippocrates
"I'm sorry to have written such a long letter. I didn't have time to write a short one."
-- Author Unknown
[The point, in case you miss it, is that controlled, concise writing takes more time than does uncontrolled, rambling writing.]
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style." -- Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
"If you can't write something worth reading, do something worth writing about." -- Ben Franklin
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