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Thomas and Mark Turner have singled out one model of prose as an aspiration for such writers today. They call it classic style, and explain it in a wonderful little book called Clear and Simple as the Truth.
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline,
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He enters the forest.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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