“I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.” PeopleTryingLittlesUseCoursesLiteratureLanguageTeachStyleStudentsFlowerPersonalitySpeechCommunicateSubstanceParts Of LifeOrnaments Author:Marguerite Young
“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.” PeopleWritingTryingBookRealCoursesStyleProseAbandonPoeticRealisticRealismSurrealBack And ForthDrunkards Author:Marguerite Young
