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Arthur Schopenhauer
23 pages (2007/1851); 174KB download
WOWIO Books; ISBN: WOWIO-00332
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This essay explores writing style: how effective writers express themselves after determining they truly have something to say.
Too often, it is argued, writing is overly complicated or shallow: "Nothing but the untiring effort to sell words for thoughts; a mode of merchandise that is always trying to make fresh openings for itself, and by means of odd expressions, turns of phrase, and combinations of every sort, whether new or used in a new sense, to produce the appearance of intellect in order to make up for the very painfully felt lack of it....
"On the other hand, a good author, fertile in ideas, soon wins his reader's confidence that, when he writes, he has really and truly something to say; and this gives the intelligent reader patience to follow him with attention. Such an author, just because he really has something to say, will never fail to express himself in the simplest and most straightforward manner; because his object is to awake the very same thought in the reader that he has in himself, and no other."