Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity and humanity.
– William Zinsser
Tag: simplicity
Quotable 228
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein
Quotable 79
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don’t get all writerly: “He opened the door.” There, it’s open.
– Amy Hempel
Quotable 35
Simplicity of language is not only reputable, but perhaps even sacred. The Bible opens with a sentence well within the writing skills of a lively fourteen-year-old: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
– Kurt Vonnegut