Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing. Voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style but a voice all their own.

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My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about hi...

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

J. M. Coetzee

A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

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Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than develop...

Ian Anderson

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

Raymond Chandler

I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

Garry Disher

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

Peter Steele

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Tibor Fischer

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

Jackie Collins

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

Iris Chang

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reaso...

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting