Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “Reading maketh a full man ……

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

— Francis Bacon

“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil of ‘that…

— Hans Zinsser

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured…

— Joseph Addison

“talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all…

— Dan Brown

We all lose friends...we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The…

— SweetangelUnknown

“The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and inquiring about…

— Ron Chernow

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the…

— James M. Barrie

“Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pages on the subject and, indeed, no historical figure has ever…

— John D. Barrow

“No single English intellectual symbolises the idea of Renaissance man more than Bacon. He wrote on aspects of law, science, history, government, politics, ethics,…

— Ronald Carter

“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer…

— Irving Stone

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help…

— William Faulkner

“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first…

— Russell Baker

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

— Steve Harvey