Gangrey
Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

18 Days To Nieman

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. — Ben Johnson

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. — Trollope.

When you can with difficulty say anything clearly, simply, and emphatically, then, provided that the difficulty is not apparent to the reader, that is style. When you can do it easily, that is genius. — Lord Dunsany.

Practice is nine tenths. — Emerson.

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