His Writing Quotes

48 quotes by 43 authors

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will… — Samuel Butler
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a… — Lucian
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the… — Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and… — Bruce Springsteen
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist — Clifford Geertz
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental… — Andrew Solomon
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that… — Joe Meno
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human… — Mohammed Arkoun
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what… — John Ciardi
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all, his… — Steve Lacy
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His… — Candice Accola
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to… — Edmond Jabes
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our… — C.S. Lewis
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential… — Ilan Stavans
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more… — Ismail Merchant
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaulâ€™s research is extraordinary; his writing is… — Debby Applegate
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo

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