You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-yea… - Katherine Anne Porter

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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.