Method Quote by William Golding

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

— John Irving

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write…

— Martha Ronk

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

— James Joyce

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

— William Ralph Inge

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

— Anne Tyler

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

— Ruth Ozeki

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

— H. L. Mencken

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful…

— William Butler Yeats