Literary Style Quotes
- Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft… — Charles Frazier
- Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins
- All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were… — Havelock Ellis
- But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And… — Ali Smith
- 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 in… — Zadie Smith
- To understand a literary style, consider what it omits. — Mason Cooley
- The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There… — Machado de Assis
- We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named… — Alice Morse Earle