It is not enough to be able to write like a mountain, but only after reading thousands of volumes can one become enlightened. ——Su Shi

Have read more than ten thousand volumes, and written like a master. ——Du Fu

Those who feel the most deeply will have expressive writing style. ——Pope

Only works that come from the depths of the soul can win the crown. ——Schopenhauer

Works are the essence of the soul. ——Schopenhauer

Only when you put all your efforts into creation, can you get something that can be called true art. ——Suyou

A writer should have two qualities, a sense of justice and the ability to see all the despicable and sordid aspects of life that will not be destroyed by any shock. ——Hemingway

There is nothing more beautiful and intoxicating than writing quickly while immersed in the joy and passion of creation. ——Heise

In order to write well, one must fully grasp the subject matter and think enough about the subject matter in order to clearly see the levels of thought and form a coherent body of thoughts, a continuous chain. ——Bufeng

I wrote each paragraph four times: once to write down what I wanted to say, once to add what I had missed, once to delete the unnecessary, and once to add the The whole text is condensed into what I just thought of. ——Allingham

In order to make the theme vivid, a certain theme we take from daily life itself is often a "no order" and "no order" thing. We take it apart, like children stacking blocks, and try to stack it up, take it apart, and try to stack it up again in another way. ——Takiji Kobayashi

For me, writing is like breathing. I can’t live without breathing. Likewise, I can’t live without writing. ——Neruda

A writer has two most attractive powers: to make people familiar with new things and to make familiar things fresh. —— Thackeray

The secret of good writing is to tell an old thing in a new way, or to tell a new thing in an old

way. ——Davis

The pen is the tongue of the soul. ——Cervantes

What is written effortlessly will be boring to read. ——Johnson

The public has never sympathized with authors who don’t sleep themselves and let their readers sleep.

——Colton

Writing is an act of faith, not a grammatical skill. ——White

Those who write clearly have readers, and those who write vaguely have reviewers. ——Kami

Simplicity is the soul of wisdom. ——Shakespeare

Writers should write for the youth of their own generation, critics should write for the next generation, and teachers should write for those who come later. ——Fitzgerald

The writing style is like the person. ——Bifon

An original writer is not a person who does not imitate anyone, but a person who cannot be imitated by anyone. ——Chateaubriand

Say what you want to say when writing prose; say what you must say when writing poetry.

——Holmes

Words should be nothing more than carefully tailored clothing to suit thoughts. ——Renard

All the fun lies in how you tell something. ——Frost

Language and pertinence are two different things. ——Erasmus

Whether the tongue says it or the pen says it, the most tragic thing is: "It would have been..."

——Whittier

Choose your words carefully, lest they become swords. ——Lyle

Words have a lot of power as long as you don’t clutter too many of them together.

——Billings

It is necessary to imitate others, but it is pitiful to imitate yourself. ——Picasso

The author does not faithfully depict the event, but conveys the inner essence in his eyes to the audience. ——Elmer Rice

I can only write about what I have experienced, what I have thought and felt, what I have loved, in short, I write about my own life, and Something to grow with. ——Goncharov

Writers should observe natural scenery and various events very carefully. What kind of sparkle will appear in the ripples stirred by the morning breeze? What does the sky look like? What's changed? Only those who have carefully observed these scenes can successfully describe countless of them. Imagination alone will not do. ——Premchand

Without the quality of emotion, it is impossible for any style of writing to move people's hearts. —— Diderot

Only works written with emotion can move people emotionally. ——S. Coleridge

First of all, you must love reason: May all your articles always gain value and shine solely by reason. ——Ni Boileau

For any work to be well written, it should...sing from the author's heart. ——Leo Tolstoy

This is true of all good works, they are not just simple sculptures or paintings. They hone their souls to make them consistent with external things, and then appropriately resurrect these in their works. Every stroke, every stroke, imprints one's own heart into the work. ——Musha Koji Shietsu

If you want to impress others, you must first be impressed yourself. Otherwise, no matter how skilled the work is, it will never have life. ——Jean-French Miller

Every work should be the fruit of passion and should be penetrated by passion.

——Belinsky

The artistic value and significance of a work are determined by the depth and social significance of its central idea. ——Zis

The theme is a thought that arises from the author's experience and is suggested to him by life. However, it has accumulated in his impression and has not yet been formed. When it requires the use of images to express , it evokes a desire in the author's mind - giving it a form.

——Gorky

If the theme is not suitable, all genius is wasted. ——Goethe

Creation should not be rushed, but all factors of the subject matter should be carefully studied in order to make comparisons and achieve maximum symmetry. ——Pierre Jean de Belanger

The choice of any technique is not arbitrary, but is determined by the subject matter and characters. ——M. de Leavis

If a writer always keeps his eyes open, he can also get the material for novels from the air. Excellent novel material can be obtained from many places such as on trains, boats, newspapers, and people's conversations. After several years of practice, observation will become natural, and your eyes will naturally choose useful things. ——Premchand

Writers should try their best to dig out things that are both interesting and educational from the ordinary. ——Dostoyevsky

Structure-this refers first to the determined purpose and determined central character, and secondly, to the determined remaining characters, who follow the ladder from top to bottom, surrounding the central figure. This is just like the structure of a building. ——A. Tolstoy

What is a typical example in creation? ——Typical is both one person and many people. That is to say, it is a kind of character description that includes many people in him, including a whole category of people who embody the same concept.

——Belinsky

It is easy to describe people; it is difficult to describe people's souls, because the soul should be expressed through the postures and movements of human body. ——Leonardo Da Vinci

A painter who is only satisfied with the appearance of the real thing and sticks to trivial details will never be able to become a master. ——Rodin

I look for details everywhere in my life. If my works can be compared to a woven web of life, then details are the nodes in the web. ——A. Tolstoy

Whoever writes out all the details will fail. He must grasp some representative details. This is where the genius lies. ——Turgenev

If you want to write compactly, you must have an extremely complete and conclusive knowledge of the things you write about, and be able to select the most exciting and important things without any effort. , without making your work cluttered and bloated. You need to know in detail to write concisely.

——Baustolsky

Choose adjectives like gems and lovers. There is a danger in having too many adjectives. Just because a certain adjective has lightning-like display power, it doesn’t mean that ten adjectives can make a piece of news ten times more interesting. ——Stanley Walker

The worst thing about those who write quickly is that they don’t know how to be concise. ——Scott

You must compress everything, compress it! By doing this, you can learn to be concise, clear, and powerful. ——Gorky

The simpler the vocabulary, the more accurate it is. ——Gorky

No matter what people want to describe, there is only one noun that can best express it, only one verb that can make it the most vivid, and only one adjective that makes its nature the most vivid, so we have to look for it. , until you find this noun, this verb and this adjective, and never be satisfied with "almost", never use obfuscation, even if it is a clever one, and never resort to language tricks to avoid difficulties.

——Maupassant

One word cannot be made easy, otherwise it will damage the writing style. ——Homer

Must ponder every word, every sentence, and study the style of the entire text. Everything has to be just right, everything has to stand up, everything has to be written exactly where the plot requires it, and it has to be done word for word, because changing a word would compromise the integrity of the whole story and its beauty. ——Furmanov

The accuracy of language is the basis of good style. ——Aristotle

A work that is completed in one stroke is not a good work, but good works are often completed in one stroke.

——Ben Jonson

I try my best to write fifteen hours a day. When the sun rises, I get up and stay there until lunch time, except for drinking coffee. , don't eat anything.

——Balzac

Writing must be slow and fast, and must not be discouraged! Might as well put your work on the anvil and hammer it twenty times! ——Ni Boileau

If you want to be good at writing, you have to practice diligently. ——Epictetus

A person who writes should not stop writing just as a painter should not stop painting. No matter what he writes, he must write every day. What is important is that his hands learn to obey his thoughts completely. ——Gogol

Writing must be strict, strict, and stricter. Go fast - this means not climbing up the mountain, but rolling down the hillside, which leads to a dead end.

——Furmanov

My motto is always: never stop writing; if I sometimes make the God of Art doze off, it is only to make him wake up and write more. excited. ——Beethoven

What is written effortlessly will inevitably be boring to read.

- Cy Johnson

Writing, especially poetry, is equal to sweating. The work is sweat. ——Jean Cocteau

Any work that takes a lifetime of hard work and polish to be completed will undoubtedly have human beings themselves as the most important object of concern. ——Mill

I advise you to work calmly, never lose patience, and revise your work ten or twenty times: you must constantly polish it, polish it, polish it again; Time can be added, but love must often be discarded. ——Ni Boileau

I have written a lot of things, but if I think they are not ideal, I will burn them and start again. ——

Ruthlessly delete all superfluous things... Although the length is reduced by half, the value to readers will increase thirty times. ——Chernyshevsky

It is faster to write a short story, but slower to send it out for printing. Short stories are like wine: they get better the longer you keep them. There is just one difference: wine cannot be touched or opened all the time, but short stories must be touched from time to time: take a look, touch it - believe it, you will find the shortcomings every time... When you have a clear conscience, Send it out then. ——Furmanov