QUOTES XCVII
WRITERS ON WRITING

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson

If it was easy to read, it was hard to write.
Proverbial

The finest language is mostly made up of simple, unimposing words.
George Eliot

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very;" otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C.S.Lewis

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus

The shorter and the plainer the better.
Beatrix Potter