Best Literary Style Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life writing can trace its lineage back to this extended footnote.”

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Author:James Shapiro

“I was in full digression! far from the subject!...my colonel was losing track...rapidly, of my story! my story!...my own story!...the gifts that I had personally received from Heaven!...yet I had insisted, every time! truly extraordinary gifts!...I'd made him repeat them a hundred times!...enough so he'd remember! that I was the only true genius! the century's only writer! the proof: that no one ever spoke of me!...everyone was jealous! Nobel! no Nobel! they had all joined forces to have me executed!...they could just go fuck off!...drop dead! since it was a question of death between me and them! I'll send their readers packing! all their readers! I'll make the public grow sick of their books! cabal! no cabal! since there was no room for two styles!...it was mine or theirs!...crawl or breastroke!...you understand!...the only inventor of the century! is me! me! me right here! the only genius, you might say! damned or not!...”

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Book:Conversations with Professor Y

Source: Conversations with Professor Y

“Visst fanns det form och stil i litteraturen, i konsten, i musiken! Det fanns överallt, tyckte han. Allt var i djupare mening en fråga om stil. Men det fanns något annat också. Stilen i uppträdande och handlande, en oklanderlig form i levnadssätt, ett modus vivendi i den egna privata livsföringen, en hållning mitt i all hållningslösheten, en attityd av tillkämpad stil mitt i allt det stillösa och förkonstlade. Man måste ha stil, hade Fabian en gång sagt till honom, djupt allvarlig, medan hans blå, nästan glasartade blick mörknade av ett varmt patos. Stil i liv och dikt - det är det som det kommer an på. Man måste skriva med stil, leva med stil, kanske också dö med stil.”

Literary Style Style Of Living Ferlin Style Of Dying

Book:Bröderna i Klara

Source: Bröderna i Klara

“Sr James George Frazer, a Scotsman by birth, is the author of the immense Golden Bough, a collection of anthropological studies. The author's methods of correlation have been as crude and unregulated as his industry and the cultivation of his erudition have been immense. The confusion of savage and primitive states of culture commenced by Tylor and his school has been carried to excess in the works of Sr J.G. Frazer. From the point of view of the social historian attempting to disentangle the story of man's coming and growth upon this planet he is one of the most calamatous phenomena in modern research: he has smashed in the ruin of pre-history with a coal hammer, collected every brick disclosed when the dust has settled on the debris, and then labelled the exhibits with the assiduous industry of a literary ant. His pleasing literary style in that labelling is in unorthodox English.”

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Book:Scottish Scene: or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn

Source: Scottish Scene: or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn

“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.”

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Author:Roman Payne

“From the Wild West, I heard the thundering voice of Bacchus’, winy prophesies,yet disillusioned in his self aching brains, that rattled his evil enemies.”

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Book:Venus and Crepuscule

Source: Venus and Crepuscule

“"Okay!...my three dots! have people ever reproached me for them! they've slobbered on about my three dots!...'Ah! his three dots!...Ah, his three dots!...He can't finish his sentences!' Every stupidity in the book! every one, Colonel!" "So?" "Go!pss!pss!...piss off, Colonel! and what's your opinion, Colonel?" "Instead of those three dots, you might just as well put in a few words, that's what I feel!"”

Literary Style Piss Three Dots

Book:Conversations with Professor Y

Source: Conversations with Professor Y

“But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.”

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Author:Ali Smith

“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.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.”

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Author:Joseph Pulitzer

“Your literary style reflects your personality.”

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Author:Louis Auchincloss

“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.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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.”

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Book:The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories

“To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

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Author:Charles Frazier

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

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Book:Scientific Advertising Origins

Source: Scientific Advertising Origins