"Stylist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... book of travel and philosophy. This tramp is a stylist, and if you have a friend who can appreciate really intimate and beautiful writing, buy it, and read it carefully word by word yourself. The pages are cut, and by this means you have a fund for reverie and talk that is not chatter. In an age of 'topics' and 'masterpieces' this quiet ...
— A Tramp's Sketches • Stephen Graham
... said, "you have doubtless heard me called a stylist. Every one of those two hundred words I erase five to ten times, polishing, substituting, seeking to express ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner
... of attaining the height of his models and also to please the taste of Mary, daughter of King Robert, he wrote the libertine tales which are gathered in the collection entitled The Decameron and which established his fame. He is one of the purest authors, as stylist, of all Italian literature, and may be regarded as the principle creator of prose ...
— Initiation into Literature • Emile Faguet
... knew what it was, I shouldn't be calling it a mystery," replied Mrs. Postwhistle, who was a stylist ...
— Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome
... on short stories meanwhile, devoting most of her effort to becoming a stylist, that she might attain immediate recognition whatever her matter. She lived in a small but comfortable hotel, for not only had she saved the greater part of her salary, but the Bolands, however oblivious socially of a paid ...
— The White Morning • Gertrude Atherton
|
