Although Quote by William Lashner

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

— James Ellroy

I aspire to write like Robert Wyatt. I take a lot of inspiration from the way he writes.

— Weyes Blood

I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I always write tons of different styles.

— Jeremy Camp

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

— Ira Glass

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

His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry,…

— Pierce Brosnan

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

— Whit Burnett

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

— Anonymous