Rudolf Flesch Quotes

• You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Reading, Home, Vocabulary

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• Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

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  Change, Learning, Mean

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• Say what you have to say, and then stop.

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  Public Speaking, Fear Of Public Speaking, Speaking In Public

  Rudolf Flesch (1949). “The Art of Readable Writing”

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• A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Reading, Errors, People

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• I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

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  Trying

  RUDOLF AUTOR FLESCH, Rudolf Franz Flesch (1954). “How to Make Sense”

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• Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Memories, Ideas, Two

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• If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Writing, Editing, Kicking

  Rudolf Flesch (1946). “The Art of Plain Talk”

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