Being Quote by Hallgrimur Helgason

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

— Douglas Brunt

It's good for a story to have a strong style.

— Shaun Evans

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

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

— Neil Gaiman

I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.

— Mini Grey

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

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

— Willa Cather

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what…

— Charlie Kaufman

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Minor writers think style is all.

— Derek Walcott