"But I’m hopelessly in love with English because it’s plain and it’s strong. It has a huge vocabulary of words that have precise shades of meaning; there’s no subject, however technical or complex, that can’t be made clear to any reader in good English—if it’s used right."
He also says:
"The hard part of writing isn’t the writing; it’s the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?”"
And this:
"Let the humble period be your savior. There’s no sentence too short to be acceptable in the eyes of God."
William Zinsser, Writing Good English, The American Scholar 2009
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