Chaos Quote by Oscar Wilde

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at…

— Raymond Chandler

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible…

— Anonymous

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually…

— Northrop Frye

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

— Robert McKee

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

— Cyril Connolly

He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is…

— Frederick Lenz

His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his…

— Jill Talbot