Aesthetic Quote by Julian Barnes

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

— Zane Grey

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

— Anonymous

I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

— Philip Levine

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

— Sarah Fielding

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

— Sophie Hannah

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look…

— Margery Allingham

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti