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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.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought read more
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on read more
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to read more
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
