"Style is a very simple matter; it..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
“Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.”
“There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.”
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“The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.”
“Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.”
“Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.”
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“As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.”
“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
“Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.”