The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
Language is the dress of thought.
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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.