Top 100 Quotes About Beautiful Writing
#1. Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct ...
Joel Achenbach
#2. MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All
REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time
Lisa Cron
#3. What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
Jonathan Galassi
#4. Poetry aims for an economy of truth - loose and useless words bust be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions - beautiful writing rarely is.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#5. As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
Karen Thompson Walker
#6. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
Scott Rudin
#7. For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
Anne Lamott
#8. When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
Paul Auster
#9. I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.
Jonathan Lethem
#10. We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.
Suzanne Palmieri
#11. It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan
#12. But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.
Penelope Douglas
#13. It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness.
Maggie Stiefvater
#14. But by spring, she had again yielded to the tug and tide of his mind, allowing its currents to carry her back across the continent and wash them up on the remote shores of his evergreen island..
Ruth Ozeki
#15. The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.
Brian Morton
#16. Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.
Mark Leidner
#17. He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.
A.G. Howard
#18. And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behavior whistling in the dark.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#19. I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language.
Holly Black
#20. The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light ...
Philippe Halsman
#22. The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
Diane Johnson
#23. Fallon and I were a lot like them. Only I didn't love her, and she didn't love me. I was infatuated with her once - and loved that she let me take my pubescent urges out on her - but we weren't in love.
Penelope Douglas
#24. I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.'
Kim Edwards
#25. Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#26. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
Charlotte Eriksson
#27. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Kim Edwards
#28. . . .She started to feel a bubble of lightness coming up through her ribs. It had been very fragile at first, but she thought now it was made of something stronger than suds. . .
(p. 121)
Natasha Pulley
#29. I walked past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it. p7
Sue Monk Kidd
#31. I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
Joanna Newsom
#32. I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in
Anamika Mishra
#33. I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
Billy Joel
#37. I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
Stephan Jenkins
#39. The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.
Mercedes M. Yardley
#40. We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding from the bud.
Mark Lawrence
#42. Guys didn't like their cars messed with. And I didn't like being messed with, so I guessed we were even.
Penelope Douglas
#44. The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#45. For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.
Charles Dickens
#46. But I liked the writing better. I could make it look beautiful. I could keep it. The spoken words just went out like the wind, and you always had to say them all over again to keep them alive. But the writing stayed, and you could learn to make it better. More beautiful.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#47. You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.
Caitlin Moran
#48. Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Paul Valery
#49. ... I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.
Grace Paley
#50. All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
Sarah Dessen
#51. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
Howard Mittelmark
#52. She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.
Esi Edugyan
#53. She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.
Kurt Vonnegut
#54. All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born
John Burnside
#55. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish.
Bram Stoker
#56. Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
Anne Lamott
#57. I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
Edward Tufte
#58. Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted.
Slavoj Zizek
#59. The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
Vikram Seth
#60. What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.
Kiefer Sutherland
#61. All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.
Ole H.
#62. I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck's cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop.
Jennifer S. Alderson
#63. [T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds.
Julie Lessman
#64. When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia.
Suzanne Palmieri
#65. Mara : I'm too selfish to leave you
Noah Shaw : I'm too selfish to let you
Michelle Hodkin
#67. Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she's different, I told myself.
Penelope Douglas
#68. It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#69. Without her glasses Vivian did look a little frightening. She had tight sinewy strappy muscles and a face that was hardened and almost brutal - a face that might have been chiseled by a sculptor who had fallen out of love with the idea of beauty.
Brian Morton
#70. The setting sun threatened to consume me - it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.
Chila Woychik
#71. I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
Padgett Powell
#72. What happens on 'Mad Men' in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it's superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it's become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it's a beautiful show to look at.
Kurt Sutter
#73. The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.
Julie Lessman
#74. I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.
Eleanor Catton
#75. I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.
Reese Witherspoon
#76. Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don't wait for anybody to tell you it's okay.
Dani Shapiro
#77. It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.
Paul Bowles
#78. One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.
Henri Nouwen
#79. Madoc has a winning personality, and he's hot. But Jared is just hot. At least Madoc has more going for him. Was she on a mission from God to reform assholes?
Penelope Douglas
#80. The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.
John Flanagan
#81. There was a cheer, and he took his first deep breath for months. He hadn't been aware of breathing shallowly. It had happened gradually; someone had put a penny on his chest every hour since November, and now the weight of thousands of pennies had lifted at once
Natasha Pulley
#82. Madoc was always calm, after all. So calm all the damn time growing up. He didn't shout or show his anger until he'd had enough. And you never knew exactly when that was going to be. That was the scary part about him.
Penelope Douglas
#83. At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.
Neil Gaiman
#84. ... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
Nazim Hikmet
#85. I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels.
Jamie McGuire
#86. I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.
Ismail Kadare
#87. The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
Robert Cormier
#88. Her writing is beautiful and poetic and how dare she.
Amy Poehler
#89. Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
Umberto Eco
#90. She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.
C.S. Harris
#91. When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.
Violet Duke
#92. Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!
Aneta Cruz
#93. It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped like mountain peaks in the sky, rays emanating downward like an illustration in a children's bible.
Christina Baker Kline
#94. Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.
James Branch Cabell
#95. Men do not die on mornings like this:
whatever happens then happens in their name,
like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory.
Michael Hogan
#96. The supernatural is natural, and wonderment can come from the most mundane movement, like a heartbeat or a glance.
David Levithan
#97. They wanted to manipulate our songs - our fantastic, well-written songs with a soulful drive - beautiful English R&B - and turn them into pop rubbish. We might as well have been writing children's lullabies for all that did for me. We had to get away from that asshole.
Diane Rinella
#98. Every things fuzzy now,but I try to stay awake long enough to tell him one more thing.
"glad you ... see ... my colors caspian."
" me too abbey," he said softly. "sweet dreams.
Jessica Verday
#99. There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.
S.A. Tawks
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