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Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end. — Anthony Marais

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

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

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

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

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

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

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. — Jello Biafra

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

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

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing. — Jann Klose

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

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

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

When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we
find 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

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

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

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

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

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. — Lisa Loeb

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.

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

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter. — Nick Thune

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

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

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

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