Atmosphere Quote by Randall Jarrell

“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

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

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

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he…

— Raymond Carver

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 writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what…

— Leo Rosten

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

— Gore Vidal

“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

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such…

— Matthew Arnold

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

— Rachel Zoe

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

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

— Jean Cocteau