Academic writing Quote by Helen Sword

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword

“Productivity, I discovered, is a broad church that tolerates many creeds. Some successful academics write daily, others sporadically; some at home, others at work;…

— Helen Sword

“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

“Every writing project must be reduced before you start to write.”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and…

— Julia Cameron

“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human impact? fame?…

— Tasha Golden

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

“For a writer, a break from working is nonexistent; while you fingers may stop typing, your brain never stops writing, developing, changing, and perfecting…

— Nicole Gulla

“Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.”

— Paul J. Silvia

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

“Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning”

— Cecil Murphey