All Quotes By Tag: Style

“I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation.”

“The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.”

“Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul.”

“Above all things — read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”

“That’s why I’ve just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There’s not a book here, Lawford, that hasn’t at least a glimmer of the real thing in it – just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don’t fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.”

“I’m the first to admit that I don’t write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.”

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”

“Character is your beauty; style is your strength.”

“Have you ever danced like a peacock with all of your style, beauty and charm?”

“Style is the inner feeling which turns random movement into music.”

“In the fashion industry elegance, style, and uniqueness always find their voices.”

“Forget about style; worry about results. ”

“The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.”

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”