Our national tendency is to inflate and thereby sound important. - P6
But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. - P6
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - P7
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other. - P8
Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say? Surprisingly often they don’t know. - P9
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. - P9
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. - P12
Consider all the prepositions that are draped onto verbs that don’t need any help. - P12
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