Answers Quote by Stephen King

“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot…

— Stephen King

“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

“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

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

— Gregory Bateson

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

— Iron & Wine

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

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

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Writing is the thing that pervades my whole day - I'm always wondering how I might describe something or improve my understanding. I'm constantly…

— Emma Healey

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

— Lisa Gardner