Lazy Writing Quotes

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“Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!)”
Miley Cyrus with Hilary Liftin, Miles to Go

Ernest Cline
“I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.”
Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two

George Orwell
“As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. It is easier – even quicker, once you have the habit – to say In my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that than to say I think.”
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Christopher Paolini
“The melatonin hit like a meteorite”
Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise