Straightforward Writing Quotes

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

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

I don't write with a complex style, I cannot.

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

I don't like making things too complicated when writing songs. I want to write in a very easy language that many people will understand.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.