His Style Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
— Samuel Butler
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on…
— Bill Roorbach
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Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear…
— Garry Kasparov
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I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.
— Joe Satriani
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I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running around…
— Lucinda Creighton
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I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his…
— Harry Belafonte
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His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit…
— Matthew Shipp
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
— Edmund Wilson
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To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
— C.S. Lewis
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
— Steven Brust
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
— Stella Gibbons
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I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his…
— Magnus Carlsen
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It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard…
— Viswanathan Anand
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I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the screen. We have…
— Kajol
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
— Seneca the Younger
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
— Oscar Wilde
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
— Paul Klee
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Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving…
— Kanye West
Who Wrote These His Style Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 46 His Style Quotes, led by these top contributors: