Top Writing Style Quotes

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

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

The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use o...

Poetry is the language of the soul;Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.Each line must flow as in a song,and strike a chord that rings forever.To me, words are music!

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

Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer rea...

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I h...

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.

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

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 look that one directs at things, both outward and inward, as an artist, is not the same as that with which one would regard the same as a man, but at once colder and more passionate. As a man, you...