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Academic Writing Quotes

My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I always try to put across an idea that I feel is important, in the most easily readable form I can manage. This has annoyed some of my academic colleagues, who feel that I am oversimplifying my subject, but I argue that at least my writings are widely read, while theirs stay firmly within the confines of their academic ivory towers. And I always work with one special rule in mind:... Desmond Morris
Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted... But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness—and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. [...] Academics are forced to write in language no one can... Gloria Steinem
Ron Chernow quote: "Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among..."
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. Ron Chernow
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. Richard Russo
In general, [. . .] novel-theorists have nothing very urgent or interesting to say about literature. Why then do they write when they have nothing to say? Because the ambitious teacher can only rise in the academic bureaucracy by writing at complicated length about writing that has already been much written about. The result of all this book-chat cannot interest anyone who knows literature while those who would like to learn something about books can only be mystified and discouraged by these... Gore Vidal
The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject... John Piper
Clifford Geertz quote: "I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some..."
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. Clifford Geertz
Carlisle Floyd quote: "I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never..."
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. Carlisle Floyd
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. Joan Didion
Peter Straub quote: "I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing..."
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Peter Straub
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. David McCullough
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? Kerry Washington
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. Harrison Birtwistle
David Eagleman quote: "My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p...."
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p. m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing. David Eagleman

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