Style Refinement Quotes

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

I'm really looking to reach any woman who's interested in refining and embracing her personal style.

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.