A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind.
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Yes, Kishore Kumar inspired me, but there was no pressure. I used to copy his style initially.
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.
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