Books Quote by Harold Evans Download Open image ““Author Edward Johnson neatly labels such cop-outs as the pussyfooting passive.”” — Harold Evans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“She understands grammar which can be a rarity in the erotic section. ---Shon Richards review of Suburban Sex Kitten Adventure on Amazon” — Shon Richards Copy Share Image
“Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality can verge… — Zoë Brigley (Thompson Copy Share Image
“Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which feels to… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate… — Richard B. Woodward Copy Share Image
I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll see newspapers… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“Here’s a sampling I made from the usual suspects (print, TV, radio, magazines). Zombies on the left, purgatives on the right, word counts in… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“The grossest offenders are in the field of, in connection with, in order to, in respect of, so far as… is concerned. All sorts… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.” — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me -… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“Prepositional verbs grow like toadstools. Once there was credit in facing a problem. Now problems have to be faced up to. The prepositions add… — Harold Evans 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
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