I think one of the things that has helped me is reading difficult books. If you read the best writers who ever lived, it definitely rubs off a bit.
Practice is also important and also self editing. You need to reread things you written and find the parts that suck. One of the things I always try to focus on is using as few words as possible. The less words you use to get your point across the better. This leads to simpler more stylish prose that is easy to understand.
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