Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely talented & uniquely equipped to interpret the complex symbolism of the world but they are certai...

Joyce Carol Oates

Dante Hicks: What are you writing over there, your memoirs? Randal Graves: I'm battling this jackass on his blog's message boards. Dante Hicks: About what? Randal Graves: About how he's got too much free time and no life. A guy in a wheelchair who's ...

Clerks II

Sergeant JT Sanborn: [as team mate approaches unexploded bomb] You know, these detonators misfire all the time. Spc. Owen Eldridge: What are you doing? Sergeant JT Sanborn: I'm just saying shit happens, they misfire. Spc. Owen Eldridge: He'd be oblit...

The Hurt Locker

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

Cat's Cradle

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

The Complete Essays

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

Conversations With Nadine Gordimer

I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.

The Complete Poems

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

COLOMBO STREETS

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

The Coming Storm

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Culture and Value

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The Death of the Author

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Dead Men Don't Answer

Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters.

Dataclysm: Who We Are

Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.

Doubt

Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

Dream Caster

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.

The Daddy Rock

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

The Distant Shore

Father is a school ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

The Dream of Scipio

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

Dust Devil on a Quiet Street

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

Dancing Softly