Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

The Lover

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

Last Witness

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

Marlin, Darlin': Garnet Sullivan Live from Florida #1

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

Snuff

I got hired by a newspaper to write a column on current events, so I wrote about Benjamin Franklin’s charting of the Gulf Stream.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

The Sun Watches the Sun

I’d like to write a screenplay about my grandpa, and I’d like my future grandson to play the part. Talk about a mindfuck!

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I’d like to write gibberish in Latin, because if people aren’t going to be able to read it, they might as well not read it in a dead language.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings

Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Till We Have Faces

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Orlando

She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

Orlando

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

Orlando

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Orlando

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage