Comparison Quote by William S. Wilson

“It’s easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out…

— Stephen King

“Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.”

— Nora Roberts

“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want…

— William S. Wilson

“Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.”

— Edward Tufte

“Comparison is often why our important roles shrink to seem so insignificant. Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.”

— Jennie Allen

“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise”

— Neal Stephenson

“No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson”

— Edmund Wilson

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of…

— Martha Minow

“And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce an inferiority…

— Sara Levine