Quotes About Writing Techniques

#1. If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Jeffery Deaver

#2. A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at the same time, know that they are utterly hopelessly different.

Philippa Gregory

#3. You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

Peter Turchi

#4. Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#5. It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

Dario Fo

#6. I don't want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I'd rather bring something new to the table that's true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That's the whole point, isn't it?

Veronika Carnaby

#7. But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

Gabrielle Giffords

#8. I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use.

Philippe Claudel

#9. I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

Nick Bantock

#10. As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:
genuine clarity
genuine feeling
the right word
the exact English sentence
the eloquent detail
the rigorous dramatization of story

Richard Yates

#11. Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

Chris Prentiss

#12. In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope and a brighter view of life.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Mute Cyclops is the Eunuch King.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#16. By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able to choose the sound I wanted to distinguish myself, so I started writing songs on the piano.

Wendy Starland

#17. Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

Arundhati Roy

#18. I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

James Thayer

#19. Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on.

Mary Sage Nguyen