Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.

• Omit needless words.
• Vigorous writing is concise.
• Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
• It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
• If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
• 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.
• 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.