Writing Quote by Aldous Huxley

“Send me the article beforehand, don't forget, and try and let it be free from nonsense. Facts, facts, facts. And above all, let it…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

— Eleanor Brown

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People who speak with two mouths and feel with two hearts anger the spirits of the bush”

— Adamu Jenitongo

“The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Read as little as possible of literary criticism — such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”

— William S. Wilson

“I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring…

— Christopher Hitchens

“this was another—and to some quite the ultimate—example of how difficult it was for the president to function in a literal, definitional, lawyerly, cause-and-effect…

— Michael Wolff

“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”

— Elizabeth Peters