Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

The Satires of Horace

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

Shadow

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

The Monk

In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame...

The Monk

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...

Manhattan Noir

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

The Moon and Sixpence

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

Never Change

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

You’ll drown in my love story, if I ever write it using a fountain pen.

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

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...” Leione

Leione's Diary: How Everything Should Have Been

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.

Letters to Emma Bowlcut

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Love is a Dog from Hell

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

Love is a Dog from Hell

All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

The Little Silkworm

Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

The Little Silkworm