Style Quote by Mason Cooley

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

— Neil Gaiman

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

— George Balanchine

Your literary style reflects your personality.

— Louis Auchincloss

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

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere…

— Zadie Smith

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

— Alexander Smith

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other…

— Tommy McCarthy

“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone,…

— Terry Eagleton

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah