Writing Quotes - Writing Formulas

"Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive not negative. Eliminate every superfluous word. Don't split verbs. Avoid the use of adjectives, especially such extravagant ones as splendid gorgeous, grand, magnificent etc."

"Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. No man with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides by them."


Ernest Hemingway (on the stylesheet outlining 110 rules that young reporters for the Kansas City Start were to follow in their writing)