Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask…

Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at…

— Eric Holmes

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

— Charles Spurgeon

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

— Havelock Ellis

“...Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.”

— Stephen Spender

“School. Fucking for chrissakes school .”

— Stephen King

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A…

— Gunter Grass

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere…

— Zadie Smith

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller…

— Alice Morse Earle

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style.…

— Ali Smith

“Visst fanns det form och stil i litteraturen, i konsten, i musiken! Det fanns överallt, tyckte han. Allt var i djupare mening en fråga…

— Erik Asklund

Your literary style reflects your personality.

— Louis Auchincloss

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Literary style is like crystal-ware: the cleaner the wineglass, the brighter the brilliance. As a reader, I agree with those who believe that a…

— Lara Biyuts

It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast…

— H. L. Mencken

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton