Quotations
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” — William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.” — William Zinsser (author of On Writing Well)
“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.” — Louis D. Brandeis
“Cut out all those exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” — Dr. Seuss, American Author and Illustrator
“I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?”— Katherine Paterson
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Use the smallest word that does the job.” — E.B. White (1899–1985)
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” —Truman Capote (1924–1984)
“Be grateful for every word you can cut.” — Willam Zinsser (author of On Writing Well)
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” — Albert Einstein
Books and Articles
Grant, Alexis. “25 Editing Tips for Tightening Your Copy,” thewritelife.com, August 14, 2019.
Norris, Mary. Between You and Me; Confessions of a Comma Queen, Norton Pub., 2015.
Shipley, David. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Editing,” Opinion section, The New Yorker, July 31, 2005.
Tarshis, Barry. How To Be Your Own Best Editor: The Toolkit for Everyone Who Writes, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.
Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Profile Books, 2003.
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