If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not … - James J. Kilpatrick - Quotesmemo.com

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

Popular Topics

Job, World, Gossip, Inspired, Worry, Technical, Song, Love You, Excellent, Value Of Life, Living My Life, Gold, Life Is Good, Knowledge, Thing, Kindly, Today, Confidence, Achievement, Character, Reality, Surprised, Organization, Music, Humbly, Bible, Feelings, Dance, Philosophy, Passive, English, Oceans, Lifetime, Looking For Love, Disco, Life Is Like, Story, I Like You, Happy, Jesus, Hope, Intelligent, Positive, Ocean, Integrity, Home, Hip Hop, Humble, Inspiring, Feeling

James J. Kilpatrick

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

Emotionally, Moving, Readers, Tears, Writing

Same Author Quotes

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

Christian, Classrooms, God, Public, Religious, School

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

Close, Context, Depend, Fit, Simile, Wit

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.

Accept, Advice, Lie, Lying, Use, Writing

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

Book, Feels, Rely, Rule, Sentence, Sentences

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Baseball, Institution, Left, Ought, Reason, Thinking

Similar Quotes

Jacqueline Carey

Jacqueline Carey

That which yields is not always weak.

Kushiel'S Dart, Weak, Yield, Yields

Beth Moore

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

Christian, God, High, Signals, World

Michael Anti

Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.

Citizenship, Freedom, Media, People, Rights

Kenan Thompson

Kenan Thompson

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

Everybody, Happy, Happy Person, Nothing, Persons, Want

Thomas M. Disch

Thomas M. Disch

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

Matters, Proportions, Quality, Thinking, Time, Toasters