Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Oscar WildeTag: style passion writing soul prose walter-pater
Style, after all, is a kind of humor,
Something truly beneath contempt...
Tag: style
[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.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: style writing civilization literature creative-process culture craft crudeness craftsmanship selling-out
Women are extraordinary creatures!
Roman PayneTag: style love gender girls woman women fashion girl gender-stereotypes extraordinary womanhood gender-equality roman creatures payne gender-identity extraordinary-women moda mode
She's beautiful,' he murmured.
'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.
'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.
Tag: inspirational style beauty beautiful fat
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
Isaac MizrahiTag: style confidence fashion
While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.
Mary Kay AshTag: style confidence fashion
What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.
"Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable..."
"What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh.
"Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity."
"A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously.
Tag: talent style writing writers craft
The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige.
Attica LockeTag: humor style wealth southern beige
People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.
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