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.
Source: In Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1963.
-- Katherine Anne Porter, (May 15 1894-1980), US novelist, short-story writer; She was a master stylist of texture and complexity of character delineation; won Pulitzer, 1966, for her only full length novel Ship of Fools.