Writing Style Quotes

Writing Style Quote of the day

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

You develop a style from writing a lot.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.

Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.