“A writer has to pass through a certain apprenticeship; and the cure for this natural vagueness is to choose small precise subjects, to say all we have in our minds about them, and to stop when we have finished; not to aim at fine writing, but at definiteness and clearness.”

Benson, Arthur Christopher. “Authorship” in From a College Window. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906, p. 212