759 Quotes About Style

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!

The most durable thing in writing isstyle. It is a projection of personality and you haveto have a personality before you can project it. Itis the product of emotion and perception.

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?

New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.