Jump to content

User:Al83tito/Sandbox

From Wikiquote
Photograph of historian John Curtis Perry (2020)

John Curtis Perry is an East Asian and Oceanic studies professor and historian.

Quotes

[edit]

Writing to be Read

[edit]
  • I would suggest that writing is an exercise in morality. The writer’s aim ought to be the pursuit of clarity. And the pursuit of clarity is the pursuit of honesty and truth. You and I must fight for the purity and elegance of the language, re-capture it from those who are constantly debasing it. Writing is an instrument for moving ideas from one mind to another. The test of good writing is: did you convey exactly what you intended to convey? Your writing becomes consequential only as it is understood by others.
  • Much academic prose illustrates how a writer can bury his thoughts under layers of phrases, and clauses, and hide behind a passive verb. Bad writing can serve as armor against the reader who wants to know what the writer thinks. We need to bring scholarship out from behind the walls; the ramparts of abstruse language, within which many scholars have enclosed it.

Quotes about Perry

[edit]
  • [Perry's writing style is akin to] "sumi-e, the Japanese paintings that portray a scene or suggest a world of feeling with a few skillful brush strokes".
[edit]
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia has an article about:
Commons
Commons
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:








Wikiquote is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus 		Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals 		Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia
Wikisource
The free library 		Wikispecies
Directory of species 		Wikinews
Free content news source
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination 		Commons
Shared media repository 		Wikiversity
Free learning resources
Wikidata
Free knowledge base 		Wikivoyage
Open travel guide
Retrieved from "https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=User:Al83tito/Sandbox&oldid=2997557"