Able Quote by Alice Mattison

You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

— Alice Mattison

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first…

— Rosemary Mahoney

“The Best of Writers have Abstract Minds”

— Tranaya jordan lowe

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

— Jillian Bell

“If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never…

— John McPhee

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

— John Metcalf

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own…

— Arthur Miller

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few…

— Aristotle

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

— Dennis Prager