Able Quote by H. L. Mencken

People don't always read things the way they are intended.

— Kenneth Cole

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often,…

— Anthony Doerr

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to…

— Edward Bunker

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever…

— H. L. Mencken

“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means…

— Friedrich Nietzsche