Book Quote by James J. Kilpatrick Download Open image “Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.” — James J. Kilpatrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Feels Rely Sentences Writing
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“There's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them.… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind,… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Every time you make a rule, somebody will think of a way to operate around the rule. — Lee Hsien Loong 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
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
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
