Ocupation: Novelist
Life: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Birthday: June 25
Death: January 21
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
topic: Truth, Real, Long, Insincerity, Language Words, Long Words, Writing Words, Written Language, Clear Thinking, Plain Language, Political Language, Cuttlefish, Idiom, Bad Language, Written Word