Rudolf Flesch - If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking ve

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.

- Rudolf Flesch

source: Rudolf Flesch (1946). “The Art of Plain Talk”

topic: Writing, Kicking, Verbs, Modern English, Colorless, English Writing