To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
Some things in literature are inexplicable.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
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.
I do not come out of a literary tradition.