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Writing Quotes by Bill Bryson
- Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
- English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
- For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical…
- Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion…
- I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
- I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov