Yes, said Mozart, but I didn t ask how. How to write The labour of composition begins when you have put separate threads of fact and thought into a loom, to weave them into a continuous whole. Writing takes more care than talking. Literature is a human document. It cannot be rigid, like a diction ary, but neither can it be casual, as in talking.
Brevity is a golden rule, but a special kind of brevity.
The reader, it may be supposed, has not done as much swotting on the subject as you have done. His mind is not full of it. It will not do, then, for you to hop, skip and jump with no bridges between the leaps. The reader will not be able to follow what is to the learned writer a perfectly clear pattern of landing places. Brevity, in the sense of telegraphic shortness, has no place in article writing, but brevity, meaning pungency, has an important part to play.