Form Quote by Jack Kerouac

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off…

— Brenda Ueland

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and…

— John H. McWhorter

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

— Raymond Chandler

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of…

— Jose Saramago

...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

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious,…

— William Strunk, Jr

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in…

— John Michael McDonagh

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and…

— James Thurber

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six…

— Mark David Ledbetter