Chance Quote by E. B. White

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

— Joseph Conrad

“training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust…

— F. L. Lucas

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

— Joseph Joubert

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in…

— George Orwell

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

— H. L. Mencken