HOW TO WRITE A GREAT SENTENCE | The Art of Writing | Hemingway | Faulkner | Amis | Provost

Longest Piece of English Literature? At least American English? William Faulkner? Tersest Sentences? Hemingway? Style or content, which is the most important? ‘We are fond of separating style and content for the purposes of analysis, and so on, but they aren’t separable, they come from the same place, and style is morality, style judges.’ This is a quote taken from Martin Amis’s essay on Saul Bellow’s ‘The Adventures of Augie March’. And if as he maintains, ‘style is morality, style judges’, and if, indeed, this is not content produced just for stylistic effect, then this is an idea with interesting implications. Now there are many different aspects to style, such as The use of Creative devices, Diction, Grammar, Tone, Rhythm, Cadence - and this is not an exhaustive list. So then, according to Amis, Grammar is Style, Tone is Style, but also - character is style, and even, setting and plot, is Style, and all the Literary tools available to and employed by the writer, ta