“To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.” WritingBookScienceSubjectsTasksArtisticNovelistsAttractiveDramaticTextbooks Author:Max Born
“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.” ThinkingNeedsWritingPersonsSelfWould BeWalksFictionIgnoranceEqualTraditionTasksLifetimeLibraryAverageGenuineGenreNovelistsArroganceBookstoresAverage PersonHubris Author:Laura Lippman
“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” IfsWritingAbilityLosingTasksSellingEnthusiasmPersistentLifelong Author:Winston Churchill
“By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.” PeopleWritingUsedCommonKnownTasksMachinesJournalismProcessing Author:Robert Motherwell
“The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.” KnowsWritingDoeProcessKnowingTasksNot KnowingEmbarking Author:Donald Barthelme