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Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.
— Anthony Marais
One does not consider style, because style is.
— Robert Stone
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
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
— Anne McCaffrey
What's my writing style? Lazy.
— Dan Alatorre
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
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
— Jane Austen
Style jazzes up your canvas.
— A.D. Posey
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
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
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
— William Lashner
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
From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?
— David H. Millar
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
— Fred Rodell
Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.
— John Patrick Lowrie
When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and wefind a man. — Blaise Pascal
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
— Nicholas Royle
You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.
— Mary Papas
It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.
— David Foster Wallace
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
— Jules Renard
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.
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
— Charles Mingus
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
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
— Flannery O'Connor
For me, all writing storytelling and style
gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order. — Dennis R. Miller
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Write visually or die!
— Jim Steranko
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
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
— Craig Finn
You develop a style from writing a lot.
— Kurt Vonnegut
