Cases Quote by George Henry Lewes

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

— Alexander Smith

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

— Tess Gerritsen

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

— Gustave Flaubert

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the…

— Alfred de Vigny

You develop a style from writing a lot.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Hallie Burnett

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“The Tradition we seek to experience is so alive and eternal that only the living dead will fail to grasp its relevance. Style is…

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