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University of Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Corresponding author: kmahrer@du.edu
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Since starting this tech-writing thing (vernacular gratis my teenage daughters), I have read, been sent (thanks!), and heard a gaggle of insightful, inspirational, and funny quotations on writing, editing and review, and related topics. If you find one or two particularly suitable, hang it or them on your wall.
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On Writing |
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"Without publication, science is dead."
—GERARD PIEL, scholar
"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
—MARCUS PORCIUS CATO, THE ELDER, ancient Roman scholar
"For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false ... what difference is there between us and hack writers?"
—POLYBIUS, ancient Roman scholar
"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."
—EURIPIDES, ancient Greek playwright
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things of worth, or do things worth the writing."
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, statesman, author, inventor, etc.
"You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading."
—RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, playwright
"To find out the true state of facts, to report them with fidelity, to apply to them strict and fixed principles ... to inform as far as possible ... appear to me to be the first duties of those who write."
—HENRY REEVE, author and editor for the Times of London
"A moment's thinking is an hour in words."
—THOMAS HOOD, poet and humorist
"There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers."
—H. L. MENCKEN, author
"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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