Laurence Sterne Quotes

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

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

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

If you can talk, you can write.

Writing is a communication.

I like to start every sentence with: 'So here's the deal.'

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.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

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

Good dialogue is very important.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Reading taught me how to write.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

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.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

I love writing different things.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.