James J. Kilpatrick Quotes

• 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.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Lying, Writing, Advice

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

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• It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Cristiano, Religioso, Escuela

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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.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Thinking, Reason

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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.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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• Style is important, but content comes first.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Style, Important

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• Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Book, Feels, Sentences

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• Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Fit, Wit, Simile

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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.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Moving, Writing, Tears

  James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Differences, Numbers

  James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Leadership, People, Hustle

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• La astrología es una superchería. Esta pseudociencia existe desde los tiempos de los caldeos y los babilonios. Es tan falsa como la numerología, la frenología, la quiromancia, la alquimia, la lectura de las hojas de té y la práctica de la adivinación por las entrañas de una cabra. Ninguna persona seria compraría la noción de que nuestras vidas están influenciadas individualmente por el movimiento de planetas distantes. Es la charlatanería de serrín de las ferias.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Reading, Serious Person, Practice

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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.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Fashion, Dark, Fda

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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.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Wisdom, Crazy, Vegetables

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