William Souder
"There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it."
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"There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it."
"هناك قول قديم بأن الكتابة العظيمة بسيطة ولكنها ليست سهلة، وهذا هو الحال تمامًا. فالبحث عن تلك الكلمة الواحدة الواضحة وغير البديهية التي تؤدي عمل خمس كلمات، وعذاب فك تشابك فكرة معقدة تحولت إلى فوضى من العبارات في ذهن الكاتب، والاستعداد لمواصلة فعل ذلك مرارًا وتكرارًا حتى يصبح الأمر صحيحًا – كل ذلك بالإضافة إلى قليل من الحظ، ينتج نثرًا شديد الوضوح لدرجة أنه يبدو وكأن طفلاً قد كتبه."
William Souder
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