Let us repeat, in different words, a definition of style, so as to assure ourselves that, style may be developed. Style is exactness, saying what one believes and means. Surely this can be learned. Style is related to fitting what is written to the apprehension and need of the reader. Undoubtedly, this can be developed.
Style is the expression of the writer s personality.
A.J. Cronin, author of Keys of the Kingdom, The Citadel, and many other works, had no knowledge of style or form, no idea of technique, when he started his first novel. He found it difficult to express him self. He struggled for hours over a paragraph. A sudden desolation struck me like an avalanche, he writes of this period. I decided to abandon the whole thing.