Boxes Quote by Ali Smith

I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way…

— Suhayl Saadi

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

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

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is inseparable from…

— Sarah Arthur

Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in…

— Terry Tempest Williams

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

— Kurt Loder