John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Four, Revision

• Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Hands, Mind

• Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Men

  "The New Industrial State". Foreword to the book by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 7, 1967.

• I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Intelligent, Two

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

• We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Strong, Communication, Writing

• One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, People, Realization

  James K. Galbraith, Kari Levitt, Mel Watkins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Unconventional wisdom: lectures from the John Kenneth Galbraith prize in economics”

• I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Way

  Source: progressive.org

• Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Ego, Fantastic

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Long, Shells

  JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”

• I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Joy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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