Judy Schwartz from Dallas, Texas, sent us the best sentence she read all day. It’s from William Zinsser’s On Writing Well: “Clutter is the disease of American writing.” Have a sentence that stopped you in your tracks? Send it our way. This is part of a complete episode.
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