Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers

An author named Arthur Arthurson would write about art, love, and road kill in Kenya. And I’d read him because I’m a meat eater and car enthusiast.

This Book Title is Invisible

Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

One Day It'll All Make Sense

Now, along with the guns I'd retrieved from my personal storage unit, I felt totally prepared to write a scholarly book on the Middle East.--Titus Ray, Chapter 9

One Night in Tehran

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it." ( )

Outside: Selected Writings

I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life.

Once a Girl, Now a Woman

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.

A Partial History of Lost Causes

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

When we write down our dreams we transform what we imagine into reality.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp: An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by László Szigeti

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

Put That in Writing

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

The Panopticon Writings

I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...

The Prophet and Other Writings

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Has he written to you?' 'He writes frequently.' 'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

The Red and the Black

I saw a white toilet, with no plumbing, alone in a field of snow. Well, almost alone. There were two naked albinos and a polar bear sitting on it, and I felt inspired to write a love poem.

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