If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.
Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her use of language becomes careless.
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
