1.   Economy of words is a sign of good writing.

2.   Looking at the might-have-beens of stylistic variation is a way of making the elusive quality of good writing open to inspection.

3.   We come to believe that good writing shows how clever we are.

4.   We learn, mistakenly, that good writing is obscure, dense and full of hard words.

5.   William was taught by his father, a schoolmaster from Northamptonshire, and inherited his good writing.

6.   In good writing there is always consonance of thought and expression, as the use of simple words for simple thoughts.

7.   THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing.

8.   Along with crime, sleuthing, good writing and tight plots, readers get a dose of herbal lore.

9.   Both volumes presented college students with models of good writing.

10.   But fans of good writing and John Le Carre will not share in it.