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Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell
Writing

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.

Bertrand Russell
Powerful, Believe, Writing
Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.1, Routledge

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

Bertrand Russell
Writing, Precise

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

Bertrand Russell
Writing, Men, History
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.465, Routledge

(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.

Bertrand Russell
Philosophy, Writing, Men
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.465, Routledge

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

Bertrand Russell
Education, Writing, School
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.61, Routledge

I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

Bertrand Russell
Writing, Thinking, Order

A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

Bertrand Russell
Writing, Average, Long
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.115, 谷月社

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

Bertrand Russell
Writing, Men, Blood
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

Bertrand Russell
Book, Writing, Thinking

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Bertrand Russell
Writing, Paid

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