Thursday Test
list 25 useful quotations for writing & speaking advancements:
- Greene - Only by recounting the specific can I say what I mean.
- MacNeil - Thought is words arranged in grammatically precise sentences.
- MacNeil - Words spoken still touch me more deeply than words printed.
- Hemingway - Do not worry. You have written before and will write again. All
you have to do is start with one simple, true sentence.
- Cousins - Clear, precise writing requires systematic, sequential thought. Words
must be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
- MacNeil - Wordstruck is what I was and still am, crazy about the sound or words, the
look of words, the taste of words on the tongue and in the mind.
- Einstein - Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- McGrory - Short sentences make writing move.
- Klebaum - The truth can be boldly assented and plausibly maintained.
- Mirrieles - Phrases pushing up like mushrooms above the level of the narrative have a
habit of turning out to be toadstools on later inspection.
- Kennedy - Writing disciples our thoughts.
- Sorenson - The test of the text is not the way the words appear, but how they sound to
the ear.
- Holmes - The eternal pursuit of exact language . . . making thoughts sing and words
sing.
- de Montaigne - I quote other only the better to express myself.
- Cousins - Writing is an art acquired by practice and repetition.
- Jonson - Language most shows the person, speak that I may see you.
- Gardner - The good writer works his rhythms by ear.
- Conrad - My task is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see.
- White - Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs.
- Strunk - Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise.
- Auden - The first act in writing is noticing.
- Updike - All I have to go on is something I glimpse out of the corner of my eye.
- Olivier - A person needs the humility to know that preparation is necessary and the
confidence to know success is possible.
- White - Since writing is communication, clarity can only be virtue.
- Goss - I try to make things out of words the way a sculptor makes statues out of stone.
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