James Thurber Quotes on Style
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With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'