Clear Quote by Italo Calvino

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

— Anthony Horowitz

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

— Gustave Flaubert

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work…

— Meryl Streep

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to…

— Claire Messud

“O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world…

— Bill Hayes

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of…

— Herbert Simon

“Elegance is the correct posture if the writing is to be perfect. It’s the same with life: when all superfluous things have been discarded,…

— Paulo Coelho

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

— Anonymous

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your…

— Virginia Woolf

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

— Nate Lowman

Elegance is a discipline of life.

— Oscar de la Renta