Books Quote by Stephen King

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot.…

— Stephen King

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

— Stephen King

“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

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich…

— Marion Dane Bauer

“I keep the description basic as it allows you to mould the story around your life.”

— Airambooksie

“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along with a…

— Giles Colborne

I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered,…

— Shane Carruth

“A story is a great way to describe your vision. Unlike a list of requirements, it helps the reader understand what’s important and why.”

— Giles Colborne

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say. It's much…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

“How are you going do your writings? How can the others understand you through words describing places, sensations, thoughts, feelings, hope, love, separations on…

— Frederick Vanderbuilt

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…

— Ernest Hemingway