William Strunk Jr.Vigorous writing is concise.
About This Quote
Vigorous writing is concise meaning, concise and to the point. The idea behind this quote is that we should focus on describing what we want to say, rather than getting caught up in boring and redundant talk about stuff that doesn’t matter and simply distracts people from what we really want to say.
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