Books Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad…

— Meyer Schapiro

“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

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

— Whit Burnett

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, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

— Quentin Crisp

“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately…

— George Bernard Shaw

Oddly enough, I suppose, I don't give much thought to my style, and I don't attempt to be consistent - except within a story.…

— Phoebe Gloeckner