Donna Tartt Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

  Donna Tartt

  Reading, Practice, Style

  Barnes & Noble Interview, www.barnesandnoble.com.

• Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

  Donna Tartt

  Kids, College, Air

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

• Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

  Donna Tartt

  Hands, Style, Storytelling

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