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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 cry.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing
#Moving Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Tears Quotes
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“Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
#Baseball Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Reason Quotes
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“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 what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
#Writing Quotes
#Childhood Quotes
#Curiosity Quotes
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“Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
#Leadership Quotes
#People Quotes
#Hustle Quotes
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“Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
#Book Quotes
#Feels Quotes
#Sentences Quotes
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“...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 cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ...This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around....”
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James J. Kilpatrick
#Fashion Quotes
#Dark Quotes
#Fda Quotes
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“Style is important, but content comes first.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
#Writing Quotes
#Style Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“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.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing
#Writing Quotes
#Numbers Quotes
#Differences Quotes
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“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 word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing
#Lying Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Advice Quotes
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“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 Copernicus too.”
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James J. Kilpatrick
#Crazy Quotes
#Vegetables Quotes
#Sound Quotes
