Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology,… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
