The Library Writer

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when the ideas are complex, it is even more crucial not to saddle the reader with long words and phrases, so he can expend his mental energy on the ideas. The sentences of “difficult” writers like Nietzsche, Kafka and Beckett are often as short and clear as those in Mr. Men books. They may be hard to fathom but they are seldom hard to read.
First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life
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