Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Wilson Follett

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Wilson Follett.
Last updated on November 14, 2024.
Wilson Follett

Wilson Follett (1887–1963) was an American writer known for writing the draft form of what became Follett's Modern American Usage, which was unfinished at his death and was completed and edited by his friend Jacques Barzun and published posthumously.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. — © Wilson Follett
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
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