William Souder Quote
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.
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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About William Souder
William Souder is an American journalist and author who won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography in 2021 for his book Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck. His book Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America was the finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His book On A Farther Shore was listed in New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 and Top 25 Best Non-Fiction book in 2012 by Kirkus Reviews.