If you want to see how active verbs give vitality to the written word, don’t just go back to Hemingway or Thurber, or Thoreau. I commend the King James Bible and William Shakespeare. Zinsser, p. 68.
Most Adjectives are also unnecessary. Zinsser, p. 69.
Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. P. 70.
…construct your sentence so that the order of the words will put the emphasis where you want it. Zinsser, p. 71.
Let the humor sneak up so we hardly hear it coming. Zinsser, p. 77.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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