When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
Footnotes the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.
I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.
They're fancy talkers about themselves writers. If I had to give young writers advice I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.
There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.
My own experience is that once a story has been written one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything...
(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works.
Fundamentally all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying about the brief flicker of time we have here and the frustrations that it creates.
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