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.


The Writer's Art (ed. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2010) - ISBN: 9781449405618

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...

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...

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...

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...