Plain Writing

Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or writing:

“‘Tis here, but yet confused.
Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)