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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
The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.
— Khaled Talib
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
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
Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.
— William Styron
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
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
If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
— Arthur Plotnik
I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.
— Lori R. Lopez
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
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
Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
— Elizabeth Bowen
You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.
— Mary Papas
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A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.
— William Zinsser
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
— Willa Cather
From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?
— David H. Millar
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
— Kurt Loder
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
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
— Fay Weldon
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
— Samuel Johnson
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
— Fred Rodell
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 hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
— William Shenstone
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
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
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.
— Brooke Fraser
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
You develop a style from writing a lot.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
Write visually or die!
— Jim Steranko
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
For me, all writing storytelling and style
gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. — Dennis R. Miller
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
— Stanley Schmidt
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
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
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
— Claire Danes
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
— Craig Finn
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.
— William Zinsser
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
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
— David Foster Wallace
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 wefind a man. — Blaise Pascal
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
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
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
