Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust… — James Joyce
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. Itâ€™s… — Stephen King
Description begins in the writerâ€™s imagination, but should finish in the readerâ€™s. — Stephen King
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers… — Stephen King
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in… — Leo Tolstoy
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the… — Ernest Hemingway
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a… — Diane Setterfield
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism… — Ronald Reagan
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of… — Anne Rice
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the… — Susan Sontag
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory.… — Alejandra Pizarnik
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of… — Daniel Handler
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? — Andre Gide
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett
But mothers lie. It's in the job description. — John Green
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only… — E. Lockhart
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and… — Mark Haddon
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into… — Ann Patchett

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