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• Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — 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… — Havelock Ellis
• But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Alice Morse Earle

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