Plain Expression Quotes

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

Better to say something simply instead of giving people a bunch of vague metaphors to mull over.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

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.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.