Just read a novelist call a 900-page draft “lean” and I’m begging the rest of you to respect an editor like it’s a religion. by Ernest Hemingway

Both of you are exhausting, but only one of you needs three drinks to explain a paragraph.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the short sentence won the war.

Ernest, darling, you write like a man trying not to be seen thinking.

Better than writing like the thought itself needs a footnote.

He says, from the man who treats a comma like a personal insult.

That’s not fair. Sometimes I need four.

You say that like you didn’t turn short sentences into a lifestyle brand and then act surprised when people noticed.