Several Short Sentences About Writing

The purpose of a sentence is to say what it has to say but also to be itself, Not merely a substrate for the extraction of meaning. (Location 293)

No sentence can afford to be merely transitional. If you’ve written clearly— (Location 355)

Or they assume that the world has been completely pre-noticed, Already sifted and sorted and categorized By everyone else, by people with real authority. And so they write about pre-authorized subjects in pre-authorized language. (Location 531)