Inspirational Quote by Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a…

— Raymond Chandler

“Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable.…

— William Strunk Jr. E.B. White

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

— Jonathan Swift

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

— Samuel Johnson

“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day, we can…

— Owen Barfield

“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The…

— George Orwell

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

“A style of this sort will seem to modern readers marred by classical stiffness--"Truth," "Knowers," "the Good," "Man"--but we can by no means deny…

— Saul Bellow

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

— Herbert Spencer

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

— Leni Zumas

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf