Comments on: Writing tips from George Orwell… http://www.on-writing-a-book.com/2009/07/14/writing-tips.html Tips, tools, and techniques on writing technical books... Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:23:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alexis Leon http://www.on-writing-a-book.com/2009/07/14/writing-tips.html/comment-page-1#comment-1852 Alexis Leon Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:23:11 +0000 http://www.on-writing-a-book.com/?p=39#comment-1852 That was a nice one. Thanks. That was a nice one. Thanks.

]]> By: Vivek Gopakumar http://www.on-writing-a-book.com/2009/07/14/writing-tips.html/comment-page-1#comment-1851 Vivek Gopakumar Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:07 +0000 http://www.on-writing-a-book.com/?p=39#comment-1851 Nice points. Short and simple words are always better that colorful and flamboyant ones. The great American writers Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner had a famous rivalry. Faulkner, a writer praised for his intricate prose style (that initially confused his readers), criticized Hemingway's trademark simplicity. Hemingway fired back, “<i>Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.</i>” Nice points. Short and simple words are always better that colorful and flamboyant ones.

The great American writers Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner had a famous rivalry. Faulkner, a writer praised for his intricate prose style (that initially confused his readers), criticized Hemingway’s trademark simplicity.

Hemingway fired back, “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

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