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September 05, 2007

He'd make a good direct response copywriter....

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

Stephen King, "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
US horror novelist & screenwriter (1947 - )

Thanks to colleague Bob Leonard for bringing this quote to my attention.

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