Georg C. Lichtenberg Trying Quotations

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.