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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
— William Lashner
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
— Jane Austen
