Wilson Follett Quotes

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

  Wilson Follett

  Writing, Together, Way

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

  Wilson Follett

  Self, Illustration, Oxymoron

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

  Wilson Follett

  Usage, Meanings Of Words

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

  Wilson Follett

  Writing, Language, Disorganization

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

  Wilson Follett

  Language, Made, Speakers

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

  Wilson Follett

  Syntax, Certain, Prose

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