Arthur Plotnik > Quotes

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”
― Arthur Plotnik

“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.”
― Arthur Plotnick, Elements of Expression

“Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.”
― Arthur Plotnik, The Elements of Expression: Putting Thoughts into Words

“amazing became the It utterance of the millennium’s first decade. Never were so many so amazed at so much that amounts to so little. If”
― Arthur Plotnik, Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives

“Split a young ash sapling a few feet down its trunk. At sunrise, pass the child through the cleft, three to nine times, against the sun. Then bind the tree and plaster the fissure with mud or clay. If the tree fares well, so will the child.”
― Arthur Plotnik, The Urban Tree Book: An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town