Passages Quote by Anonymous

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write…

— Louis Menand

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in…

— Kevin J. Anderson

“You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.”

— Ellen Raskin

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

— Don Henley

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it…

— Anthony Hamilton

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

— Rose McGowan

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other…

— Junot Diaz

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I…

— Jesmyn Ward

I try to pay attention to language. I think that as a general rule, we as writers talk too much and we should listen…

— Don Winslow

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other…

— James Frey