Books Quote by Clint Smith Download Open image “Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!” — Clint Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Speak Truth Wise Writing
Keep building your word-power. Read, read, read. That way you will be able to say what you really feel. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Speak to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire, but first and foremost always speak the truth. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and… — Jonathan Price Copy Share Image
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth to another… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. — William Shunn Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
