Jeffrey Rosen Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss the hundredth anniversary unless I pumped the thing out in six months, because I'd been delaying and dilly dallying for so long. So he both inspired me to get up early and write.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: www.slate.com

• But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately as possible just thinking of communicating to readers who might want to learn about this great thinker and be inspired by him as I was.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

• Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there’s so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Cat, Democracy

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

• Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Sister In Law, Mind

  Source: www.slate.com

• What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Saws, Tools

  Source: www.slate.com

• [Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Voice, Louis Brandeis

  Source: www.slate.com

• Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Teaching, Writing, Connections

  Source: www.slate.com

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