H. G. Wells Quotes about Writing

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

H. G. Wells

Book, Writing, Trying

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

H. G. Wells

Teacher, Writing, Unique

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

H. G. Wells

Writing, Stronger, World

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

H. G. Wells

Writing, Littles, Life Is

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1579, Delphi Classics

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

H. G. Wells

Writing, Thinking, One Day

Quoted in Warren Weaver's article Statistics Scientific American January 1952

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

H. G. Wells

Writing, Way, Walks

H. G. Wells (2016). “Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)”, p.397, Read Books Ltd

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells

Passion, Writing, Editing

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

H. G. Wells

Writing, Heart, Blow

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3110, Delphi Classics

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

Writing, Ambition, Literature

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

H. G. Wells

Writing, Thinking, Average

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics