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Literary Style Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Your literary style reflects your personality Picture Quote #1

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits Picture Quote #1

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All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead Picture Quote #1

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 (Literary Style Quotes) Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject (Literary Style Quotes) 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 (Literary Style Quotes) 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 (Literary Style Quotes) Your literary style reflects your personality (Literary Style Quotes) To understand a literary style, consider what it omits (Literary Style Quotes) All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead (Literary Style Quotes) The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness (Literary Style Quotes) 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 (Literary Style Quotes)