Accessible knowledge is the best kind

“Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.”

— Helen Sword

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

— Elliott Colla

“the best of luck in improving their English writing skills. However, in saying that, it's not up to luck so much as dedication, hard…

— Stephen E. Dew

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality…

— Daniel Drezner

“My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I always try…

— Desmond Morris

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone…

— Elliott Colla

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the…

— Michael Jackson

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword

“When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children's play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything…

— James Hugh Comey

Because lots of LGBTQ people are really smart, and there's so much really interesting reading that can be done, and so much academic writing…

— Joe Lycett