Crawford Kilian quotes

“Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.”
-- Crawford Kilian

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“If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.”
-- Crawford Kilian

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“Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.”
-- Crawford Kilian

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“Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.”
-- Crawford Kilian

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“Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?”

Source : Song: Ashes and Wine, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.”

“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”

“At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.”

“I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.”

“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.”

“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.”

“A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!”

“I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.”

“Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.20, Image Continuum Press