Compliment Quote by William H. Gass

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

— Sophie Hannah

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

— Octavia E. Butler

“Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks – which explains why they…

— Lynne Truss

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

— James Taylor

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

— Kurt Loder

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney

Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle.

— Sydney Pollack

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

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

“Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.”

— Francine Prose

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to…

— Haruki Murakami