Adrian Tomine Quotes

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.

My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

Omit needless words.

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Supreme court opinions should be written in such a way that they can be read in the barber shop.

We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.