Academic Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best…

— David Mermin

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

— Tara Westover

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic…

— Richard Russo

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

— James W. Pennebaker

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors…

— David Brin

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I remember from my academic days, there were people who could never begin writing because they hadn't read every single thing on their subject,…

— Thomas Mallon

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

— William Monahan

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

— Clifford Geertz

I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.

— Ruskin Bond