It’s the way the author writes–you may have noticed, some books are full of conversation, some are into description, some have full-page sentences, others have short, snappy little sentences. Some like involved plots; others are more into creating a situation.

As an example: Dr Seuss has a writing style [“it’s a troublesome world. All the people who’re in it, Are troubled with troubles about every minute.”] different from your history textbook [“throughout the course of mankind’s history on this planet, a large number of obstacles have been incurred…]. They may say the same thing, but in different ways.

Let me just start by saying that I do know teen writers who are absolutely brilliant. Certainly much better than I am and better than a lot of adult writers. Does it mean they’re ready to publish? Maybe some short stories. Novels? Absolutely not. You are right that any writer has a lot to learn. I think with some exceptions, it takes at least a decade of practice to really start mastering the craft. With most writers starting between 10 and 12, it’s unlikely they’ll get to publishable level before the age of 20 (and I’m being extremely geerous here). That also means that a 16 year old who’s been learning a long time is bound to be better than a 30 year old who has just started. The real difference is life experience. Yes, teens can garner some life experience and they can observe. But there are experiences a teenagers just cannot get. And what’s actually even more important, they do not have the hindsight on their experiences that an adult has. No, there is no “magic line” you cross between 19 and 20. But I can assure you as somebody who was once 13, 16, 19. Heck even 22. There is a massive difference between who I used to be and who I am now at age 27. I was a very mature teenager. But a teenager is necessarily limited: they’re mature for their age, not just mature. I GUARANTEE that with hindsight you will find yourself fairly naive when you re-read this. It’s something only an adult can know: that everything you thought you knew as a teenager, all the certitudes you had will make you smile a little and shake your head. PS: Steven J Pemberton put all this a lot better than I have. I agree with every point.

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Style Is the Dress of Thoughts

“Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage.”

(Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield)

Style Is Who and What We Are

“The style is the man himself.”

(George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon)

“The old saying of Buffon’s that style is the man himself is as near the truth as we can get–but then most men mistake grammar for style, as they mistake correct spelling for words or schooling for education.”

(Samuel Butler)

“Style is the image of character.”

(Edward Gibbon)

“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.”

(Blaise Pascal)

“Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.”

(Andre Maurois)

“The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules–that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it–that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.”

(H.L. Mencken)

“You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.”

(Katherine Anne Porter)

Style Is Point of View

“Style is the perfection of a point of view.”

(Richard Eberhart)

“Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.”

(Gustave Flaubert)

“Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.”

(Alexander Theroux)

“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.”

(Robert Frost)

Style Is Craftsmanship

“I discovered that what’s really important for a creator isn’t what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what’s important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It’s not what we say but how we say it that matters.”

(Federico Fellini)

“Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.”

(Jonathan Swift)

“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.”

(Raymond Chandler)

“The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.”

(Edward Gibbon)

“One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.”

(Gustave Flaubert)

Style Is Substance

“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can’t be separated.”

(Jean-Luc Godard)

“Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.”

(Cardinal John Henry Newman)

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

(Oscar Wilde)

“Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.”

(Alfred North Whitehead)

“Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.”

(Wallace Stevens)

“Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”

(Vladimir Nabokov)

“All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. . . . For me ‘style’ is matter.”

(Vladimir Nabokov)