Good Legal Writing: of Orwell and Window Panes
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/goodwriting.html

Samuelson, Pamela
University of Pittsburgh Law Review
1984

Abstract:

George Orwell once wrote that `[g]ood prose is like a window pane.' What I take Orwell to have meant by that remark is that when people read good prose, it makes them feel as if they've `seen' something more clearly.