Tom Weston-Jones Quotes

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

People who think well, write well

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

In good writing, words become one with things.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

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.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.