Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Rudolf Flesch

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Rudolf Franz Flesch was an Austrian-born naturalized American writer, and also a readability expert and writing consultant who was a vigorous proponent of plain English in the United States. He created the Flesch Reading Ease test and was co-creator of the Flesch–Kincaid readability tests. Flesch advocated use of phonics rather than sight reading to enable students to sound-out unfamiliar words.

American - Author | May 8, 1911 - October 5, 1986

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

Rudolf Flesch

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

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

Rudolf Flesch

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

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

Rudolf Flesch

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

Rudolf Flesch

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

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Rudolf Flesch

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