Cases Quote by Hendrik Willem van Loon

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

— Shailer Mathews

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

— Martial

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said…

— Dorothy Parker

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

— William James

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

— Joshua Mohr

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

“If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mitigation of his offense, not in condonation…

— William Zinsser

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

— Salman Rushdie

“The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers…

— Marcos Giralt Torrente