Academic Quote by Gotz Aly

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.”

— Helen Sword

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best…

— David Mermin

Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

— Sylvia Plath

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time to time,…

— Sarah Harrison

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys…

— Erica Jong

Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of self-loathing before…

— Warren Leight

I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid…

— Octavia Butler