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Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. — Charles Darwin

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words. — Khaled Talib

I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain De Lille

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death. — Hallie Burnett

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. — Horace Greeley

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it. — David Hare

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

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

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. — Robert Bringhurst

We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not been heard before. — Scott Norton

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

Most of us find our own voices only after we've sounded like a lot of other people. — Neil Gaiman

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar. — Elsie De Wolfe

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work. — William Zinsser

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

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs. — Sting

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

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style. — Brooke Fraser

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. — Cyril Connolly

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours. — Jane Austen

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

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. — Samuel Johnson

Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose. — A.J. Flowers

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. — Otis Blackwell

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. — Tibor Fischer

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

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond

Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be. — Anthony Marais

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style. — Josh Lieb

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. — Whit Burnett

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style. — Dashiell Hammett

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. — Stanley Schmidt

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.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous. — Suzanne Curchod

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

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

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

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. — Flannery O'Connor

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

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. — George Orwell

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style. — William Lashner

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — Ken Bruen

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen

The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style. — Michael Pollan

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. — Kurt Loder