Limmy Quotes

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

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

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.

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

I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily.

When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'

If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the bush, and he doesn't overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman's terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.

America's very refreshing when you go over there; they're all just open about what they want, and they want you to be open, too.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.

I don't change the way that I play. I love the game of basketball, man. I ride with these guys in this locker room. They know that. If I've got something to say to them, I will say it. You may not like the way that it comes across. That's fine. But that's who I am.

I don't think I'm going to ever be the guy that gives soundbite after soundbite. If somebody has a question, I'll answer it. But if they don't, I don't have anything to say, really.

I don't write with a complex style, I cannot.

Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

I learned that you have to be careful about how you say things but not what you say.