Jack Kerouac Quotes

The way you write affects what you say.

So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

I like how I write better than how I speak.

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

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

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

How can you contrive to write so even?

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.