Brian Azzarello Quotes

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

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

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself.

Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

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

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

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

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.