Wilson Follett Quotes

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.