For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.


Timber Or Discoveries (ed. 1641)

Ben Jonson Quotes

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own...

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own...

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own...

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own...