Crawford Kilian quotes
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“Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.”
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“If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.”
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“Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.”
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“Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.”
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Source : Song: Ashes and Wine, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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“There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.”
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“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”
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“I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.”
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“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.”
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“Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.”
Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.20, Image Continuum Press
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