Winston Churchill Quotes on Writing
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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
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I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
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The picture rises before us vivid and bright: the finely carved, dragon-shaped prow; the high, curving stern; the long row of shields, black and yellow alternately, ranged along the sides; the gleam of steel; the scent of murder.
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Broadly speaking, short words are the best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
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One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided whenever possible.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
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This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.
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We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.