James J. Kilpatrick Quotes
- If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.
- 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…
- The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.
- Style is important, but content comes first.
- ...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 be…
- Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
- Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.
- Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess…
- Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.