Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1887 - 1963
Birthday: 1887
Death: 1963
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
Topics: Writing, Together, Way
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
Topics: Writing, Disorganization, Looseness
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
Topics: Syntax, Certain, Prose
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
Topics: Usage, Meanings Of Words
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
Topics: Self, Illustration, Oxymoron
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
Topics: Language, Made, Speakers
