Who said “I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable…”?

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”

“A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.”

“What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model. With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.”

“Style is the image of character.”

“Fashions fade, but style is eternal.”

“Man is not made for defeat.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”