Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.