#readable

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#cannot #face #him #his #never

It is always the unreadable that occurs. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#occurs #unreadable

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#i #knew #never #pains #readable

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#goodness #make #only #readable #sense

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#difference #journalism #literature #read #unreadable

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#cast #emotions #great #had #i

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no. ↗

— George Murray

#being #easy #i #interested #not interested

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

#constantly #good #good prose #like #nothing

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#alarm #any #chapters #condition #end

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗

— Stendhal

#forty years #make #nobility #now #our