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E. B. White on writing for children (1969) This is it. https://t.co/a1Kj9TwfJN
a simple style is the result of harder thinking and harder work than they are willing or able to do.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Children must be very indulgent to the grown-ups.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
Lift out the top layer of your toolbox—your vocabulary and all the grammar stuff. On the layer beneath go those elements of style upon which I’ve already touched. Strunk and White offer the best tools (and the best rules) you could hope for, describing them simply and clearly.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
Good writers of prose must be part poet, always listening to what they write. E. B. White is one of my favorite stylists because I’m conscious of being with a man who cares about the cadences and sonorities of the language. I relish (in my ear) the pattern his words make as they fall into a sentence. I try to surmise how in rewriting the sentence h
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