Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Rejection, Suffering

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 68), 1862.

• A book should be luminous not voluminous.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Writing, Should

• All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Good Writing

• Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Hands, Genius

• It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

• In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.167

• If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Writing, Distinction

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