Wolf Blitzer Quotes

The truth is in the details.

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

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

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet, works like a bookkeeper, and writes like a journalist.

Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.

I write my columns pretty carefully.

Why say 'utilize' when you can say 'use'?

My job is to be accurate and clear.

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

I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.

The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.