Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
“Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase,… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate,… — Nami Mun Copy Share Image
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I purposely used a pretty cocky, abrasive writing style in Sex and Crime, to stir up some drama. My confrontational style quickly… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Pirate and Osbie Feel are leaning on their roof-ledge, a magnificent sunset across and up the winding river, the imperial serpant, crowds… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic"… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
“English is like a poetic extension of myself. It holds my creativity and imagination in blissful and inspiring captivity. Though I consider… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The Page awaits the Inspiration even as Inspiration roams the world of man, seeking a Page upon which to unfurl itself, body… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Yashraj liked my writing style, and they had a concept in mind, so they hired me to write. That's how 'Luv Ka… — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters,… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
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