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What writers & others say<\/h2>\n

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“I am known for giving great verb.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Jacqui Banaszynski, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and visiting faculty member of The Poynter Institute<\/h6>\n
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“Strong verbs create action, save words, and reveal the players.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Roy Peter Clark, vice president and senior scholar, The Poynter Institute<\/h6>\n
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“‘Here’s what our product can do’ and ‘Here’s what you can do with our product’ sound similar, but they are completely different approaches.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals<\/h6>\n
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“A sentence, Matthew\u2019s teacher back in Virginia had tried to drum into his thick Kinsey head, could live without a subject, but it could not live without a verb.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Edward P. Jones, author, in The Known World<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Verbs conjugated in Paris just as they did in Artois. If you kept your mind on the verbs, everything would fall into place around them.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Hilary Mantel, author, in A Place of Great Safety<\/em><\/h6>\n
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Leo McGarry, fictional chief of staff to the president: “How are you feeling sir?”
\nJosia Bartlet, fictional president: “Vexed, riled, irked. Ticked, honked, pissed.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Aaron Sorkin, in West Wing<\/em><\/h6>\n
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