Quotes by Writing Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. Carl Bereiter readingeducationwriting Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to. Carl Clinton Van Doren harderhardwriting But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths. Carl Eckart errorsteachingwriting You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. Carl Friedrich Gauss mathwritingtime Sin Carl Friedrich Gauss analogiesusewriting Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult. Carl Hart detailswritinginteresting The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. Carl Hiaasen realwritingthinking No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add. Carl Hiaasen shiningdecisionwriting If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing. Carl Hiaasen depressingwritinghands I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book. Carl Hiaasen waitingwritingbook Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. Carl Hiaasen writingbookideas I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid. Carl Hiaasen writingkidsbook When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works. Carl Hiaasen girlwritingfun I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly. Carl Honore wantedwritingworld The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. Carl Jung evilwritingpeople The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. Carl Jung fatewritingmen Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. Carl Jung silencerealwriting A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course. Carl Jung fatewritingbook All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out. Carl Jung speaks-outtaskswriting All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind. Carl L. Becker historicalmindwriting«192193194195196197198199200201202»
