Careful! These boxes are sensitive.
Business writers who write like students miss the mark.
~MARGARET CHANDLER
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
~ ALICE MUNRO
The most important tool you have on a resume is language.
~ JAY SAMIT
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
~ WINSTON CHURCHILL
Tweet others the way we want to be tweeted.
~GERMANY KENT
When writing about science, don’t simplify the science; simplify the writing.
~JULIE ANN MILLER
It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C. J. CHERRYH
The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
~ ROBERT CROMER
The comma gives many a writer a migraine.
~MARGARET CHANDLER
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
~BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Consider the postage stamp. Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
~ JOSH BILLINGS
The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
~Mark Twain
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.~ ANTHONY BURGESS
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ JIM ROHN
First, think not so much about how people read and more about how people search. Think of your audience as scanners or browsers.
~MARGARET CHANDLER (referring to online environment)
There’s no such thing as bad writing, only bad rewriting.
~ ROBERT GRAVES
Clarity in business writing is not a luxury.
~Sir Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
~ MATTHEW ARNOLD