Style:
- The way you write, as opposed to what you write about (though the two things are linked). It results from things like word choice, tone, and syntax. It's the voice readers "hear" when they read your work.
- the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that ischaracteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.
Quotes on Style:
- "The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off." -Raymond Chandler
- "The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise." -Edward Gibbon
- "Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style." -Jonathan Swift
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