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By: Writing More, Writing Less

Writing More, Writing Less — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:27:59 +0000

[...] post, battling, as you might expect, length. You can read several more quotes in the same vein at Dangerous Intersection. This entry was posted in Personal. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: [...]

By: Alex Rowe

Alex Rowe — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:59:38 +0000

Brevity is the soul of wit

Intelligent speech and writing should aim at using few words. This proverb comes from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare.

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By: Dan Klarmann

Dan Klarmann — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:42:37 +0000

Richard: Reductio ad absurdum.

I lunched with a fellow who showed me a self-published book by a guy with whom he agrees. Yet the book was steaming mounds of incoherent text that desperately needed to have had an editor. Or at least a spell checker!

Useful technique: Read your prose aloud to someone who hasn’t heard it before. Look for boredom or confusion. Let them interrupt.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:52:54 +0000

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:09:34 +0000

“The only art is to omit.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:34:24 +0000

Ichabod

By: Kevrichard

Kevrichard — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:55:43 +0000

While grade school teachers reward wordiness and long word counts with loads of filler for anyone going into the business world its all about getting right to the point and being brief. In comparison to writing everything you can think of on the page, in writing a targeted and brief piece of writing every word and sentence needs to be tweaked not only for word count but for meaning as well! Great quotes demonstrating this!

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:53:58 +0000

Check out these related posts, Describing yourself in one word or less. See also, “Your biography in six words.”

By: gaps96

gaps96 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:48:23 +0000

Good perspectives. I strongly agree, nevertheless I think there are some (only some) things which need to be explained in detail. So many words, so many thinkings, so many things to say… it would be a waste leave all of them.

Who’s Felelon?
Can be this one? Searching by the phrase… ¿François Fénelon?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_F%C3%A9nelon

Regards.