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Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
- Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
The limits of that language—shared assumptions of class, culture, education, ethics—both focus and shrink the scope of the fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
William Zinsser • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
My wife refers to herself as the Texan that got away, but that is only partly true. She has virtually no accent until she talks to a Texan, when she instantly reverts. You would not have to scratch deep to find her origin. She says such words as yes, air, hair, guess, with two syllables—yayus, ayer, hayer, gayus. And sometimes in a weary moment the
... See moreJohn Steinbeck • Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language did not function as a storehouse of words, from which users could summon the correct items, preformed. On the contrary, words were fugitive, on the fly, expected to vanish again thereafter. When spoken, they were not available to be compared with, or measured against, other instantiations of themselves.
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Always use “that” unless it makes your meaning ambiguous. Notice that in carefully edited magazines, such as The New Yorker,
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
All olive oil contains free fatty acids. To be described as extra virgin, an oil must contain less than one percent of these acids. More than one percent but less than one and a half, and you have a vierge fine. Anything above this, up to 3.3 percent, can only qualify as virgin.”
Peter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
The poet seeks perfection in every line and sentence; she demands flawlessness of form.