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"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs." »William R Allen
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"Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien
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"writing, I think, is not apart from living. writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." »Catherine Drinker Bowen
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers
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"writing only leads to more writing." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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"Nineties style isn't." »David Borenstein
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"Fashion changes, style remains." »Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
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"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." »Quentin Crisp
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"style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." »Gore Vidal
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"Fashion can be bought. style one must possess." »Edna Woolman Chase
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"We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style." »Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
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"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom." »Don DeLillo
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"In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." »Longfellow
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"God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas." »Pablo Picasso
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"An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style." »Alan Simpson
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"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once." »Quentin Crisp
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"I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth." »Marcel Marceau
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"With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground." »Longfellow
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"Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success." »Pete Johnson
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"STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS." »Pete Johnson
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra
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"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
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"It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style." »oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"God is love, but get it in writing." »Gypsy Rose Lee
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"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again." »Delmore Schwartz
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