Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

David Walliams

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

Dean O'Gorman

Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.

Darnell Lamont Walker

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

Edie Brickell

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Eric Bana

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Eleanor Catton

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

Eliza Coupe

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Elvis Costello

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

Eric Clapton

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

E. L. Doctorow

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

E.L. Doctorow

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

Emilio Estevez

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Eduardo Galeano

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

Eva Green

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Ernest Hemingway

Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.

Euginia Herlihy

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

Euginia Herlihy

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Ernest Hemingway

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Elfriede Jelinek

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

E. L. James