Young Girl Writes on Paper with a Pencil

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
- Horace Greeley

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
- Horace

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
- H. W. Shaw

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.
- Tupper

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
- Robert Frost

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson

Don’t say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
- C. S. Lewis

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning & inhibit clarity.
- Calvin, from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
- Mark Twain

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Look, then, into thine heart and write!
- Longfellow