Ruskin Bond Quotes

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

I'm a 'frotteur,' someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible. Does that word in this sentence have any electric potential? Does it do anything? Too much electricity will make your reader's hair frizzy. There's a question of pacing.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

I am baffled by good writing.

I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.