Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Those who write clearly have readers.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

Writing is seduction.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.

Writers turn dreams into print.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

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've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Content dictates form and style.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.