American politics Quote by Spiro T. Agnew

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

— Jacques Barzun

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

— Heinrich Heine

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

— Ezra Pound

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't…

— Erwin Chargaff

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

— Milton Friedman

“His genius had only begun to flower. This was only journalism, after all, a cup of tea on the way to his eventual triumph…

— Tom Wolfe

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread…

— Henry David Thoreau

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something…

— J. B. Priestley

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

— Henry David Thoreau

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

— V. S. Pritchett

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

— Eleanor Brown