Clifford Geertz Quotes about Writing

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

Writing, Thinking, Happens

Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

Clifford Geertz

Believe, Writing, Balance

Clifford GEERTZ (2009). “After the Fact”, p.133, Harvard University Press

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

Clifford Geertz

Writing, Done, Ends

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Clifford Geertz

Writing, Research, Literature

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

Clifford Geertz

Writing, Style, Academic

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

Clifford Geertz

Book, Writing, Mean