Writing Quote by Cheryl St.John Download Open image ““Descriptive writing is more than visual; it employs all the senses.”” — Cheryl St.John ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Look at all those stars. God has fireworks on display all the time, doesn't He?” — Cheryl St.John Copy Share Image
“Avoid ending a scene with your character going to bed. Your reader will shut off the light and go to sleep, too.” — Cheryl St.John Copy Share Image
“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual… — Cheryl St.John Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
