James D. Houston Quotes

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

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

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

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.

I love writing different things.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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

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

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

Words are my life.

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

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

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Reading taught me how to write.