“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
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American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991Related quotes
Source: Wings of Fire, p. 45.
La critique souvent n'est pas une science; c'est un métier, où il faut plus de santé que d'esprit, plus de travail que de capacité, plus d'habitude que de génie. Si elle vient d'un homme qui ait moins de discernement que de lecture, et qu'elle s'exerce sur de certains chapitres, elle corrompt et les lecteurs et l'écrivain.
Aphorism 63
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit
“There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.”
Small talk: Dermot Healy, 2011
Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)
Context: That was my problem then and it's my problem now; I have a bad attitude. In a nutshell, I fear authority but at the same time I resent it — the authority and my own fear — so I rebel. And writing SF is a way to rebel. … SF is a rebellious art form and it needs writers and readers and bad attitudes — an attitude of "Why?" or "How come?" or "Who says?"
"A Few Words to a Young Writer" http://www.ursulakleguin.com/WordsYoungWriter.html (2008)
the lowest thing I can think of at this time
Letter (20 March 1953); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
