Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

It's 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

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

History

What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves

A House in the Sky

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

How to Suppress Women's Writing

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

Inheritance

With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.

I Love You Too

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it'll be so long, I'll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it.

I Want

Professional writers write to fit

From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

I Can't Tell You

If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.

On The Journey To Achievement

Writing out a goal allows us to see it in words. It creates a statement that does not change; it is something that we can go back to repeatedly for direction and clarity.

On The Journey To Achievement

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

John Adams

I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.

Kay Kay, My Super Hero Koala Bear!

And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

The Kills

I've finally decided to write about profit for a change But before I really started I already started to feel lame Baby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

Killosophy

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Rise of the Morningstar

Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

The Red Sun: Legends of Orkney

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

The Red Notebook: True Stories

At the witching hour, the city was totally silent. Only the wind of portent blew through the gathered council of whispering brick chimneys on the rooftops, delivering the hand that would write upon the wall.

Revenge of the Wolf

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

In Search of the Word: Selected Essays