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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of read more
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the read more
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
