在The Elements of Style中，E.B. White說"I have been trying to omit needless words since 1919, and although there are still many words that cry for omission and the huge task will never be accomplished, it is exciting to me to reread the masterly Strunkian elaboration of this noble theme.
下面是他老師William Strrunk Jr.的一段話津坑，非常精彩：
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unneccessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjuscts only in outline, but that every word tell.
concise妙蔗，simplicity都不是說句子一定要短，而是要清楚疆瑰，要讓every word tell眉反。如果這個詞沒有什么用，就刪掉吧穆役。
