A prose writer should state exactly what he feels; or else - and this is often more effective - deliberately understate. But how difficult to persuade young writers of this! So often their impulse is to assume that talking big is the same as talking vigorously. As well suppose that the best way to sing well is to sing loud.

F.L. Lucas, Style

A great part of the writer's problem, then, is how to catch the ideas that creep forth in the stillness, like magic mice, from their holes... It pays, I think, to meditate a good deal, both before beginning to write, and at intervals while writing. The process of creation may refuse to be bustled. The writer's reverie with a cigarette by the fire

Style is a means by which a human being gains contact with others; it is personality clothed in words, character embodied in speech. If handwriting reveals character, style reveals it still more.

F. L. Lucas, Style