Catharsis Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“When consulted on one of the earliest texts by Alain Badiou, an article on Althusser, Derrida’s reply was both frank and open-minded: I’ve just…

— Benoît Peeters

“Education, the press, politics, religion—in a word, all the great forces in the world—are at present on the side of irrationality; they are in…

— Bertrand Russell

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them…

— Pat Conroy

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into…

— Pat Conroy

“You have to be used to the twists of fate and being caught up in them to dare lift your eyes when certain questions…

— Victor Hugo

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to…

— Samuel Johnson

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects…

— Anonymous

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when…

— Tom Waits

“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we…

— Marcel Proust

“The only way to defend language is to attack it…' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression,…

— Alain de Botton

“Furthermore, Professor Uzzi-Tuzii had begun his oral translation as if he were not quite sure he could make the words hang together, going back…

— Italo Calvino