Subject: Communication » Reading/Writing (Page 2)

It’s a very good historical book about history.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist
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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.

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Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
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Americans like fat books and thin women.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
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Plagiarism: Failure to adorn stolen ideas with footnotes, as opposed to scholarship, which repeatedly acknowledges the theft.

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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
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Reading him is like wading through glue.

(1809 – 1892) Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
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Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.

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I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
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If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

(1973 – ) American comedian
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

(1908 – 1999) English writer
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers; unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

(1775 – 1834) English critic & essayist
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.

(1822 – 1888) English writer
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Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Intelligence Reading/Writing

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
Communication Reading/Writing

Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.

(1926 – ) Irish American novelist & playwright
Communication Reading/Writing

The literary gift is a mere accident – is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

(1872 – 1956) English essayist, parodist & caricaturist
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