Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

Orafoura told me my writing is all nonsense. “Nonsense,” I replied. “Glad you agree, “ he said.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?

Aegean Sun: Room 101

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

The Alchemist

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.

Apocalypse Now

Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

All the Bright Places

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

Astrophel and Stella

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. Th...

Thom Yorke

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

Wallace Shawn

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

The Hollow Man

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

Hourglass Museum

It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.

Harlow

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

Hear the Wind Sing

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

How to Read and Why

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

The Interior Castle

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

An Italian Journey

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

I want to write a poem about "Truth," "Honor," "Dignity," and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.

I Want