“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Literature
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
Horace on Poetry
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Poetry
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Language
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” Continue reading
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Continue reading
Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Language
“Language is the source of misunderstandings.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Writing
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.” Continue reading
An English Professor on Writing
“I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.” Continue reading
Seneca on Literature
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.” Continue reading
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