Sublime

Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.

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.

But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adul

I would put brackets around every component in a piece of writing that wasn’t doing useful work.

The race in writing is not to the swift but to the original.

Stephen King has written, “To write is human, to edit is divine.”6

professional writers rewrite their sentences over and over and then rewrite what they have rewritten.

preferred structure for most web writing is the inverted pyramid.