10 Winston Churchill Quotes on Writing

Winston Churchill quotes on writing

5. Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

29. I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

97. The picture rises before us vivid and bright: the finely carved, dragon-shaped prow; the high, curving stern; the long row of shields, black and yellow alternately, ranged along the sides; the gleam of steel; the scent of murder.

120. Broadly speaking, short words are the best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

134. I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

153. One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided whenever possible.

178. The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

180. The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

184. This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.

191. We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.