So your own winning literary style must begin with interesting ideas in your head. Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
These sentences were written by Kurt Vonnegut in "How to Write with Style” on page 546 in The Prose Reader compiled by Kim Flachmann and Michael Flachmann. Vonnegut's article is on pages 546-549 in the book. This book was published by Prentice Hall in Englewood Cliffs, NJ in 1993.
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