Literary Style Quotes

• To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

  Mason Cooley

  Estilo

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• Your literary style reflects your personality.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Personality, Style

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• The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

  Machado de Assis

  Book, Writing, Government

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press

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• Lo que un periódico necesita en sus noticias, en sus titulares y en su página editorial es brevedad, humor, poder descriptivo, sátira, originalidad, buen estilo literario, condensación inteligente y exactitud, exactitud, exactitud.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Clever, Style, Needs

  c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

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• Pero todo lo escrito tiene estilo. La lista de ingredientes de una caja de cereales tiene estilo. Y todo lo literario tiene estilo literario. Y el estilo forma parte integral de una obra. Cómo se cuenta algo se correlaciona con -más- hace a lo que se cuenta. Una historia es su estilo.

  Ali Smith

  Style, Ingredients, Lists

  Ali Smith: ¿Estilo o contenido? Los novelistas deben enfocar su arte teniendo en cuenta lo que pide la historia, www.theguardian.com. 18 de agosto de 2012.

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• Todo estilo literario, especialmente el nacional, está hecho de esas coincidencias, que son una especie espiritual de juegos de palabras. Por eso el estilo es intraducible.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Style, Coincidence

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• All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Lying, Past

  havelock ellis (1923). "la danza de la vida"

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• Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Voice, People

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• Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Unique, Style

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker "Orígenes científicos de la publicidad", Lulu.com

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• Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

  Charles Frazier

  Attitude, Black, Style

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• It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Style, Stuff

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