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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Writing, Hands, Genius

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Book, Writing, Should

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Writing, Rejection, Suffering
"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 68), 1862.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Book, Writing, Distinction

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Writing, Good Writing

In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Writing, Mean, Thinking
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.167

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Believe, Writing, Men
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.125

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