Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

Bono

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

Beth Orton

I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.

Brendan O'Carroll

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Blaise Pascal

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Beatrix Potter

I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.

Bob Seger

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Bruce Sterling

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able. I have extremely few memories.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

Bob Woodward

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

Carol Anshaw

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

Chris Abani

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.

Catherine Crier

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

Gustave Flaubert

When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?

Gustave Flaubert

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

Gunter Grass

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Glen Hirshberg