Simple style, simple mind? (Zinsser)
April 4th, 2008 | Published in Business, Writing, Education, Quotes | 1 Comment
Plain talk will not be easily achieved in corporate America. Too much vanity is on the line. Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple style reflects a simple mind. Actually a simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking: a muddled style reflects a muddled thinker or a person too arrogant, or too dumb, or too lazy to organize his thoughts.
—William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 175.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:18 pm (#)
Josh,
This is an outstanding quote.
Real writers know that simplicity and clarity is the key to writing well.