Coincidence Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one that doesn't…

— Lydia Davis

“There’s something comforting, almost soothing, about realism, and it’s nothing to do with shocks of recognition — well it wouldn’t, since shocks never console…

— Stanley Elkin

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

— Neil Gaiman

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

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 speak to the world without words.

— Bobbie Thomas

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

— Douglas Brunt

Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.

— Gad Elmaleh

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

— Elizabeth Bowen

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

— Mason Cooley