Clear Quote by Peter Matthiessen

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

— Samuel Butler

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

— John Barth

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

Geoff Dyer is an abundantly talented writer.

— Cillian Murphy

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from…

— Kenzaburo Oe

“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

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

— Leslie Fiedler

“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell,…

— David Foster Wallace

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can…

— Michael Tomasky

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante