Better Writing Quotes by James J. Kilpatrick

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• If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you…
• Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary,…
• The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as…
• 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…
• 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.…
• Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love…

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