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> [If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/if-you-go-through-any-newspaper-or-magazine-and-look-for-active/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

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## More by Rudolf Flesch

> [“What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/what-are-we-after-when-we-open-one-of-those-books-what-is-it-that/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/you-can-t-build-a-vocabulary-without-reading-you-can-t-meet-friends/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/i-say-don-t-read-the-classics-try-to-discover-your-own-classics-every/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/abstract-ideas-are-the-patterns-two-or-more-memories-have-in-common/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/if-you-go-through-any-newspaper-or-magazine-and-look-for-active/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/a-writer-must-know-how-people-read-what-are-the-main-sources-of/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/creative-thinking-may-mean-simply-the-realization-that-there-s-no/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [Say what you have to say, and then stop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/say-what-you-have-to-say-and-then-stop/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

> [Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-flesch/creative-thinking-may-mean-simply-the-realization-that-there-s-no-2/)

[Rudolf Flesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-flesch/)

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