Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

Journey to a Dream

It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

Just After Sunset

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Ragtime

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!

A River in the Sky

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Something Different

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

The Savage Detectives

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Sand and Foam

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

So Brave, Young, and Handsome

A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.

Strangers in the Land

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

Mud Vein

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

The Madness Vase

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Novalis: Philosophical Writings

It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

Norwegian Wood

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

One Wife's Solution: Awakening

I’ll write The Art Of Love, which will be tactical, like The Art Of War.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

Less Than One: Selected Essays