What Is a Good Writer?
Friday June 20, 2008
"A good writer is simply one who says all he wants to say, who says only what he means to say, and who says it exactly as he meant to say it."
(Ferdinand Brunetière, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Robert Louis Sanderson, J. B. Lippincott, 1906)
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Do the writers of this site realize how many times they use and have used the word “clear” in their attempts to explain how to write? There many definitions of “clear.” Please refrain. And, please understand why I clearly appreciate the quote from Ferdinand Brunetière.