MESSAGE #834 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT WILLIAM STRUNK

Omit needless words.
Vigorous writing is concise.
A sentence should contain
no unnecessary words,
a paragraph
no unnecessary sentences,
for the same reason
that a drawing
should have
no unnecessary lines
and a machine
no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr. (1869-1946)
author
“The Elements of Style”