Descriptive Quote by Cheryl St.John

“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive”

— Rayne Hall

“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single reader.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

— W. J. T. Mitchell

“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.”

— Stewart Stafford

“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.”

— H.P. Oliver

“At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.”

— Franz Kafka

“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple…

— Stephen King

“A writer's task is to interpret his world as he sees it, if not to make it understood, at least to make it understandable.”

— Leonard Walker

“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within”

— George Eliot