Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

My writing looks like it’s ten steps behind my mind, and racing to always catch up.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

The Shadow of the Wind

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Silence: Lectures and Writings

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Truth and Beauty

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote: Conversations

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

Texas Gothic

For my books, I do everything short of writing my own reviews. Those I do tall.

This Book Title is Invisible

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

In One Person

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Oliver Twist

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Oliver Twist

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?' 'Yes." 'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

Puckoon

sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.

Please Don't Kill the Freshman

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.

Post Marked

What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Portrait in Sepia

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings