Authorship Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.

— Mark Kac

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

— Samuel Johnson

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

— Bill Crawford

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

— Orrin Woodward

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

— John Locke

“Good writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments. When the evidence is well presented, the reader’s judgments will agree with those implicit in…

— John Ciardi

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

— Orison Swett Marden

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

— Brian Evenson

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

— Bram Cohen

While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state…

— Walter J. Phillips

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story…

— William Faulkner