Simple Language Quotes

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Why say 'utilize' when you can say 'use'?

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

I want to make a film that can reach as many as possible so I want to talk in a language which I can easily communicate with.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to people.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

Simple is the language of truth.