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  1. 19 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

    Quote attributed to Ann Handley (Everybody Writes) could not be verified via web search; no record of this exact wording in her book.; Author's name is misspelled as "Stephen Pinker" instead of the correct "Steven Pinker" (repeated from the references list, which correctly lists "Pinker, S." but the in-text citation spells out the wr; Quote attributed to William Zinsser (On Writing Well) could not be verified via web search; no record of this exact wording in his book.; Quote attributed to Josh

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    "The art of saying no is the art of saying what is true, plainly, without extra freight. Every word after the no either clarifies or muddies." Ann Handley, Everybody Writes [...] "Saying no with precision is a gift to the person you are telling no. It saves them time, it saves them hope, and it saves the relationship." Stephen Pinker, The Sense of Style [...] "The people who know what they will not do are the people who do their best work on what they will." William Zinsser, On Writing Well [...] "You can tell a lot about a firm by what it declines. The firms with the tightest focus decline most, and charge most." Josh Bernoff, Writing Without Bullshit

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    The art of saying no is the art of saying what is true, plainly, without extra freight. Every word after the no either clarifies or muddies. [...] Saying no with precision can be a gift to the person you are telling no. It saves them time, it saves them hope, and it saves the relationship. [...] The people who know what they will not do tend to be the people who do their best work on what they will. [...] You can tell a lot about a firm by what it declines. Firms with the tightest focus tend to decline the most work, and charge the most for what they keep.

    Why: Quote attributed to Ann Handley (Everybody Writes) could not be verified via web search; no record of this exact wording in her book.; Author's name is misspelled as "Stephen Pinker" instead of the correct "Steven Pinker" (repeated from the references list, which correctly lists "Pinker, S." but the in-text citation spells out the wr; Quote attributed to William Zinsser (On Writing Well) could not be verified via web search; no record of this exact wording in his book.; Quote attributed to Josh Bernoff (Writing Without Bullshit) could not be verified via web search; no record of this exact wording in his book.

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  1. Correction 19 July 2026

    Emir Baycan: Quote attributed to Ann Handley (Everybody Writes) could not be verified via web search; no record of this exact wording in her book.; Author's name is misspelled as "Stephen Pinker" instead of the correct "Steven Pinker" (repeated from the references list, which correctly lists "Pinker, S." but the in-text citation spells out the wr; Quote attributed to William Zinsser (On Writing Well) could not be verified via web search; no record of this exact wording in his book.; Quote attributed to Josh

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