For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.


A Joy for Ever, note 6 (1857).

John Ruskin Quotes

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure ...

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure ...

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure ...

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure ...