Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

PopCo

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

Prince of Thorns

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

The Real Frank Zappa Book

He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

The Reaches

My ex girlfriend, she gave great log cabin. But she couldn’t write a speech like Lincoln. So I grew a beard and broke up with her.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

What I did I can’t undo. But I can address it, and undress you.” This is the chorus in a new song I’m writing called “Mannequin Love.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I didn’t enjoy writing it. Just kidding! I hope you don’t enjoy it at all.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If this book looks like it took me 15 minutes to put together, that’s because it did! 30 seconds to write it, and 14.5 minutes to illustrate it. (The translating was instantaneous).

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I think the perfect pen name is Quill McSeagull. Especially for writing flights of fancy—and nothing has more feathers than a love poem.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The night before I’m murdered,” said the voice over in my head, “will be at noon.” I’d better write and mail all my love letters in my mannequin handwriting.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I don’t mince words—I mincemeat. And combining these two I’m writing a cookbook called, “101 Pies I’ve Never Eaten—And Neither Should You.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me one day.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Writing all day every day is good, but it’s not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

This Book Has No Title

It’s easy to see what to do once it’s already been done. The difficult time is before it’s to be done, and while you’re doing it. This is the difference between writing and editing.

This Book Has No Title

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.

True West

The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right." "If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint.

Under a Prairie Moon