You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.


Writers at Work interview (1963)

Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a...

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a...

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a...

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a...