It will seek to be lucid and easy, but when opportunity offers it will also be graceful, witty, pathetic or imaginative. The elements of prose style can be developed, as everyone can testify of his own experience. We can learn to use proper words in proper places. We can learn to use right phrases in the right way. 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.