The Basics
Title: Writing: 2,100 Quotations for Readers, Writers, and Lovers of Writing
Author: David W. Sloan
Genre: Reference
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Book Synopsis
“When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.” — Anatole France, French novelist and poet In Writing: 2,100 Quotations, you will find quotations from more than 700 writers. Like any good book, you will find it interesting, one with which you can spend an hour a sitting and enjoy the time. If you are looking for entertainment, you will find it on the pages here. If you want instruction and inspiration, you also will find them. The quotations are arranged in a logical order, chapter by chapter, and then within each chapter, they are grouped according to subject matter. Enjoy this book. In fact, carry it around with you — for, as P.J. O’Rourke, the political essayist, advises, “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
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My Two Cents
David Sloan has gathered 2,100 quotations that everyone will enjoy reading.
Some of the quotes and a few of the originators of the quotes were unfamiliar to me. Some, I had heard before but had forgotten them.
Who is this book for? Everyone! It is for entertainment, instruction, and inspiration. Speakers and writers will find a treasure trove of quotations to use in their speeches and writing.
The pages are filled with pictures and short biographical information about each quote originator. I learned so many things about these folks.
Sloan includes quotations on Books, The Writing Profession, The Writing Process, Writers, Genres of Writing, Editors and Critics, and Reading. The quotes come from a widely diverse group of people/books: the Bible, Aristotle, Winston Churchill, Dr. Seuss, Rudyard Kipling, Louis L’Amout, Mark Twain, George Washington, Martin Luther, and Frank Zappa, to name a few.
Here’s one I’ll be using soon: “When [Satan] sees the Word running and contending alone on the battlefield, then he shudders and shakes for fear. The Word is almighty, and takes captive the hearts. — Martin Luther, German theologian (1483-1546)
My writing friends will find encouragement through this one: “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. — Samuel Johnson, English essayist, poet, critic, and lexicographer (1709-1784)
I highly recommend this book to everyone! It would make a great gift for any occasion.
NOTE: I purchased my copy at the Southern Christian Writers Conference and had David Sloan autograph it for me!
Writing: 2,100 Quotations and other books by David Sloan are available at Vision Press, Amazon, and Regimen Books Christian Classics.
About the Author
Read my interview with David: Meet Author David Sloan
David Sloan and his wife, Joanne, along with their daughter, Cheryl Wray, are the founders of the Southern Christian Writers Conference. Since its first year (1992) attendance at its annual workshops has totaled approximately 5,000 people.
David taught journalism and mass communication at the college level for 38 years, first at the University of Arkansas and then at the University of Alabama.
He has written or edited 45 books in the areas of non-fiction writing, mass media history, contemporary media issues, and research methods. His book The Media in America has been for thirty years the mostly widely used college textbook in the field of mass media history. Along with those books, he created the series Regimen Books Christian Classics and serves as its editor. Twenty-five books have been published in the series.
Along with the SCWC, he is the founder of the Southeast Journalism Conference and the American Journalism Historians Association. He served a five-year term as editor of the AJHA’s research journal, American Journalism. The AJHA recognizes him with its annual “Sloan Outstanding Faculty Research Paper” award. In 1998 he received the AJHA’s Kobre Award for lifetime achievement and in 2010 its National Award for Teaching Excellence. The SEJC’s Sloan/St. Dizier Award is given annually to the outstanding college journalism educator in the Southeast.
He is also the founding editor of the online journal Historiography in Mass Communication.
He has served as national president of both the AJHA and Kappa Tau Alpha, the mass communication honor society. On its 90th anniversary, KTA selected him as one of the five most important members in its history.
He received his Ph.D. in mass communication and United States history from the University of Texas.
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