“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.”
Source: ABC of Reading (1934), Chapter 3
Context: Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Ezra Pound 68
American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972Related quotes
Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)
Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.
§5.4
Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
Malcolm Cowley, in Henry Goodman (ed.) The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (New York: Citadel Press, 1949) p. 15.
Criticism
“Language is often changed by writers.”
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.
“Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.”
Miloš Urošević, as quoted in May '92 (2012) p.19
About