
In a Usenet message, 3 Feb 1992.
The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate
In a Usenet message, 3 Feb 1992.
The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate
"How to Read the Shui-hu chuan", § 26; in How to Read the Chinese Novel (1990), ed. David L. Rolston, p. 137
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Ten, Sartre, p. 224
“Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.”
Source: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. XXXII
Source: remembered rapture: the writer at work
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
“I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.”
Introduction to Nemesis (1989)
General sources
Context: I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics — Well, they can do whatever they wish.