Jacques Barzun Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

  Jacques Barzun

  Writing, Bad Writing, Scholarship

• I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.

  Jacques Barzun

  Book, Writing, Learning

• Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Writing, Unique

• Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

  Jacques Barzun

  Writing, Opposites, Names

• Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

  Jacques Barzun

  Block, Stupid, Writing

• Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

  Jacques Barzun

  Writing, Race, Political

• 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

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