Jacques Barzun Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Reading, Intellectual, Important

• My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.

  Jacques Barzun

  Fall, Reading, Artist

  Interview with John C. Tibbetts, December 4, 1986.

• One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

  Jacques Barzun

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin