Eric Hoffer Quotes about Writing

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Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

Eric Hoffer

Writing, Ideas, Sickness

Letter to Mrs. Blumberg, September 27, 1977.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Eric Hoffer

Writing, Sweat, Smell

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Eric Hoffer

Philosophy, Writing, Play

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.

Eric Hoffer

Writing, Vices, Obscurity

"Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

Eric Hoffer

Writing, Lunch, Waiting

Letter to Margaret Anderson, 1941.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Eric Hoffer

Pain, Writing, People