By using a more pompous phrase in his professional role he not only sounds more important he blunts the painful edge of truth.” If he were asking one of his own children he would say, ‘Does it hurt?’ He would, in short, be himself. “Even your dentist will as if you are experiencing any pain. Clutter is the laborious phrase which has pushed out the short word that means the same thing.Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn’t be there.Their sentences are littered with words that mean essentially the same thing and with phrases which make a point that is implicit in what they have already said. Many writers can’t stand to throw anything away.The writer must constantly ask himself: What am I trying to say? Have I said it? Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time?.If a reader is lost, it is generally because the writer has not been careful enough to keep him on the path.The man snoozing in his chair with an unfinished magazine open on his lap is a man who was being given too much unnecessary trouble by the writer. Clear thinking becomes clear writing: one can’t exist without the other.“Tell them,” Roosevelt said, “that in buildings where they have to keep the work going to put something across the windows.” “Such preparations shall be made as will completely obscure all Federal buildings and non-Federal buildings occupied by the Federal government during an air raid for any period of time from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination.”
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