[noworriesnate]

Check out The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. He talks about how to write and stresses the importance of being concise.

[vinceguidry]

I suspect the point was that brevity is harder than it looks.

[Kalium]

Be concise. Be forcible. Have a plan to kill every sentence you meet.

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This is my preferred summary of Strunk and White.