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E. B. White on writing for children (1969) This is it. https://t.co/a1Kj9TwfJN
Don’t preconceive the reader’s limitations. They’ll become your own.
Verlyn Klinkenborg • Several Short Sentences About Writing
Flesch used sentence length and syllable count as factors in his readability studies, an arithmetic once derided by E. B. White in his essay “Calculating Machine.” “Writing is an act of faith,” wrote White, “not a trick of grammar.”
Roy Peter Clark • Writing Tools
I edit for myself and I write for myself. I assume that if I consider something interesting or funny, a certain number of other people will too. If they don’t, they have two inalienable rights—they can fire the editor and they can stop reading the writer. Meanwhile I draw on two sources of energy that I commend to anyone trying to survive in this v
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