On Writing More Clearly

"Here, in short, is what I want to tell you.

Know what each sentence says,

What it doesnt say,

And what it implies.

Of these, the hardest is knowing what each sentence actually says."

Verlyn Klinkenborg teaches creative writing at Yale and is a former member of the editorial board of the New York Times, he shares more in this excerpt from his book, "Several Short Sentences About Writing."