Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if…

When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so…

— Lucy Calkins

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world,…

— Kevin Keck

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the…

— Matt Haig

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants…

— William Safire

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct…

— Aristotle

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without…

— Mercy Otis Warren

But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out…

— William Bayliss

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

— Susan Howatch

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

— Jude Morgan

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to…

— Hannah Gadsby

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when…

— Voltaire

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

— Philip Schaff

Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your…

— Robert McKee

If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .…

— Paul Copan