"Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas ."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Sickness Quotes

“To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.”
“A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.”
“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”

Source : "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)". Book by M.P. Singh, p. 302, January 1, 2005.
“I havent partied since...last Friday!”

Source : "Kate: ‘I Am a Woman Now’". Interview with Philip Green, nymag.com. February 15, 2009.
“Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.”

Source : "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.
“Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.”
“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Source : Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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