Logo
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. – Norbet Platt

Category:
Writing

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Writing

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

Category:
Writing

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

You cant trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. – W. C. Fields

Category:
Trust

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck

Category:
Truth

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. – Ronald Reagan

Category:
God

What is more mortifying than to feel you’ve missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? – Logan Pearsall Smith

Category:
Risk