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.
Transcript of “Sentence on The Disease of American Writing”
Grant, we got another best sentence of the day.
This one was sent to us by Judy Schwartz in Dallas, Texas.
She was reading an article about William Zinsser, and it quoted him saying, “Clutter is the disease of American writing. There’s just too much stuff in too many sentences.”
I agree with that.
One of the reasons I like Hemingway once in a while.
Yeah, every once in a while.
Exploded writing, for sure.
Yeah, once in a while.
