Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.

Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.