“It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using lo...” — Gretchen Rubin Quote

“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.”

“Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'”

“Biography lends to death a new terror.”

“I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.”

“It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.”