A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very
thing which can least of all read more

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very
thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly
as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the
throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is
at least subjected to the action of the will.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
[Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
[Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]

Style is the dress of thoughts.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,

Style is the dress of thoughts.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]

The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style.
Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style.
Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.