Accents Quote by Bill Roorbach

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is…

— Thomas Jefferson

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

— Mary McCarthy

“Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers…

— Naveed Saleh

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

— Hallie Burnett

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 a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately…

— George Bernard Shaw

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer…

— William Styron

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story -…

— Alexander Weinstein

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone…

— Pablo Picasso

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

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

— Solange Knowles