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Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.
— Anthony Marais
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject
— Claude C. Hopkins
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
— Robert Frost
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development
— Stephen D. Krashen
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
— Baron De Montesquieu
It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
— Hallie Burnett
Style is important, but content comes first.
— James J. Kilpatrick
Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh
Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive
— Rayne Hall
I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.
— Andre Holland
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
— Anne McCaffrey
Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.
— Billy Bob Thornton
As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.
— Kola Boof
If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
— Arthur Plotnik
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
— John Wilkins
What's my writing style? Lazy.
— Dan Alatorre
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
— Douglas Crockford
Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.
— William Zinsser
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
— Kurt Loder
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
— David Foster Wallace
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
— Claire Danes
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
— Herbert Spencer
His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.
— Rudyard Kipling
Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
— Elizabeth Bowen
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.
— James Frey
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?
— David H. Millar
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
— Willa Cather
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
— Raymond Chandler
A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.
— William Zinsser
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
— Virgil Thomson
I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.
— Shiloh Walker
You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.
— Mary Papas
My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.
— Jane Austen
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
— Cyril Connolly
As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.
— Brooke Fraser
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
— Sting
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
— Fred Rodell
But a huge part of being a writer is discovering your own intellectual and aesthetic autonomy, and how you best get the best words onto the page.
— Paul Harding
Style is to forget all styles.
— Jules Renard
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
— James Ellis
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
— Stanley Schmidt
Write visually or die!
— Jim Steranko
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.
— John Gimlette
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
— Anita Desai
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.
— Nick Thune
For me, all writing
storytelling and style
gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. — Dennis R. Miller
storytelling and style
gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. — Dennis R. Miller
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
— Aristotle.
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
— George Saunders
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.
— Lisa Loeb
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
— Dashiell Hammett
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
— Whit Burnett
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.
— Josh Lieb
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
— Charles Mingus
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.
— Anthony Marais
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
— Derek Raymond
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
— Jules Renard
Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.
— Jann Klose
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
— Horace Walpole
But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.
— Miles Davis
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
— Craig Finn
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
— Nicholas Royle
When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we
find a man. — Blaise Pascal
find a man. — Blaise Pascal
Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.
— John Patrick Lowrie
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
— Jane Austen
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.
— Ken Bruen
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
— Erica Jong
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
— William Lashner
Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
— P.D. James
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Style jazzes up your canvas.
— A.D. Posey
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
— Flannery O'Connor
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
— Jewel
You develop a style from writing a lot.
— Kurt Vonnegut