Distinguished Quote by John Crowe Ransom

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his…

— Charles Ives

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in…

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually…

— William Strunk Jr

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers; by them,…

— Percival Stockdale

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what…

— Leo Rosten

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

— Robertson Davies

He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their…

— John Stuart Mill

“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic laws but…

— John Gardner

“Vision, emotion, sincerity, passion and creativity. Without these attributes a writer has only his pen with which to speak to his audience”

— Bill Knight English Writer Copywriter Cynic