Beautiful Writing Quotes

• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  Andre Gide

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• Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

  Ernest Hemingway

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• Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

  V. S. Pritchett

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• Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

  Joel Achenbach

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• The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like popcorn. Whether a book is action-packed or not, all I need are well-written prose and quirky, fabulous characters to keep me going.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Smart, Writing

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• 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

  Beautiful, Writing, Night

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• For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.108, Anchor

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• 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

  Beautiful, Writing, Luxury

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Writing, Mind

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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