James J. Kilpatrick Quotes

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

James J. Kilpatrick

#2. I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Manuel Puig

#3. Style is important, but content comes first.

James J. Kilpatrick

#4. 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

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

James J. Kilpatrick

#6. When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Chris Martin

#7. I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

Hannah Storm

#8. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity: it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

James J. Kilpatrick

#12. 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

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

James J. Kilpatrick

#14. Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve.

Kate Atkinson

#15. 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