Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters

"Sentences can be about anything, but writing is about clarity. That’s the central idea of Do I Make Myself Clear?, Sir Harold Evans’ memoir-cum-craft manual in which he rollicks – with all the joy and adventurousness of a rock ’n’ roll tell-all – through lessons in English usage gleaned from decades at the helm of The Sunday Times. Of the truly silly number of hours I’ve spent with my nose in the binding of books on the craft of writing, those I spent with Do I Make Myself Clear? were the only I spent smiling, in search of someone I could read aloud to."