"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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Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

James J. Kilpatrick

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Advice Quotes

“You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2007). “The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.”
“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”
“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”
“For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2014). “Spirits of Battle: featuring The Bowmen”, p.5, Courier Corporation
“My own parents loved each other very much.”
“I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2011). “The Woman He Loved Before”, p.158, Hachette UK
“"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.”

Source : "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.

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