Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“If you try to follow the language of thought in your own mind, you will not find even the simplest sentences- only shreds, fragments…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

— Eric Hoffer

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

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

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

— Harry Kemelman

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

— Arthur Helps

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy…

— Hugh Blair

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you are the intuitive, you need to observe the following rules: First, say explicitly, at the start, what you are talking about. (Otherwise,…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser