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

- James J. Kilpatrick

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

- James J. Kilpatrick

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

- James J. Kilpatrick

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 m…

- James J. Kilpatrick

Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phr…

- James J. Kilpatrick

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 Isaa…

- James J. Kilpatrick

Style is important, but content comes first.

- James J. Kilpatrick

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…

- James J. Kilpatrick

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