Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Writing
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.
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