Belief Quote by Alain de Botton

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.

— Barbara Holland

“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…

— John Kennedy Toole

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet…

— Eric Hoffer

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

“This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid a straight…

— Ernest Hemingway

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit…

— Jojo Moyes

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“Poor writing is lazy, careless writing, an attempt to communicate without adequate preparation or care. It is writing replete with passive construction, limp verbs,…

— Mark Nichol

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either…

— William Zinsser