A Guide To Writing

Mark Twain famously observed, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Quotations like this are called “pithy prose”. They can cover an unlimited variety of subjects: love, religion, politics, human nature, etc. What unites them is their ability to say more in one or two sentences than could be expressed in a thousand-word treatise. They are like pouring a liter of liquid into a half-liter bottle.

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