Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Good writing is valuable like gold because it is both clear and rich in meaning. It contains many hints packed tightly within few words.
In plain terms
Clear writing should be dense with meaning.
What can you take from it?
Pack your writing with meaningful hints.

Where it applies

  • editing drafts
  • crafting essays
  • editing messages

Putting it to work

  • condense your drafts
  • remove filler words
  • add subtext

Questions to consider

  • How dense is your current writing?
  • What hints are you hiding?

Another view

Not all writing needs to be dense; some contexts require simplicity.

More from Eric Hoffer

  1. To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sens…

    Permalink to quote #146
  2. I have never felt that I had a thought too profound for others to understand. On the contrary, it always seemed to me axiomatic that what was clear to me shoul…

    Permalink to quote #148
  3. It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves - not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us…

    Permalink to quote #145

Related quotes

  1. For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later I, nor anyone else…

    Anne FrankAnne Frank quote #1
  2. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

    Gore VidalGore Vidal quote #2
  3. Poetry must be as well written as prose.

    Ezra PoundEzra Pound quote #2