Sublime

E. B. White makes the case cogently in The Elements of Style, a book every writer should read once a year, when he suggests trying to rearrange any phrase that has survived for a century

If your sentence has more than two commas, you have too many.

Writing is like a good watch—it should run smoothly and have no extra parts.

Examine every word you put on paper. You’ll find a surprising number that don’t serve any purpose.

Any organization that won’t take the trouble to be both clear and personal in its writing will lose friends, customers and money.

Always use “that” unless it makes your meaning ambiguous. Notice that in carefully edited magazines, such as The New Yorker,

Bill Walsh (who I’ve described exclusively as my personal hero since first picking up a copy of his essential text The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English