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I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.