Easy reading is damn hard writing.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
~C.S. Lewis

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
~Winston Churchill

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
~John Calvin

I am not a very good writer, but I am an excellent rewriter.
~James Michener

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
~St Augustine