Upton Sinclair on writing

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.

Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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